Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) stated that 700 prospective senatorial candidates for the Regional Representatives Assembly (DPD) fulfilled the minimum electorate support to advance to the next registration stage for the 2024 General Elections.
Apart from the president and vice president, members of the House of Representatives (DPR), regional leaders, and local legislature members, voters will also pick the senator representing them in the DPD in the elections next year.
Each province is represented by 4 senators in the upper house of the Indonesian parliament. Due to the establishment of brand-new provinces in Papua, the next DPD will have 152 members, a significant increase from the present number of 136.
” According to the minimum electorate assistance and its distribution according to Short article 183 of the Election Law, 700 prospective senatorial candidates have actually satisfied the requirements,” KPU Commissioner Idham Holik stated here on Saturday.
He noted that of the 700 qualified prospects, there are 139 female candidates, or equal to 19.86 percent, and 561 male prospects, or comparable to80
With 55 certified senatorial candidates, West Java is the province with the largest number of prospects, while Yogyakarta has the lowest number, recording just 9 qualified prospects, the commissioner said.
Holik mentioned that South Sumatra, where 50 percent of its prospective candidates are ladies, has the greatest portion of female senatorial prospects of all provinces in Indonesia.
” Provinces with zero-percent female senatorial candidates are West Sulawesi, West Papua, and Southwest Papua,” he pointed out.
Earlier, the KPU revealed that prospective DPD senatorial candidates considered to fulfil the minimum electorate support might advance to the registration stage in May 2023.
014- PU/05/2023, KPU Chairperson Hasyim Asy’ari stated that the senatorial candidate registration will open from May 1, 2023, to May 14, 2023, at 11: 59 p.m. regional time.
He stated that potential candidates are required to register at KPU workplaces in their particular provinces or at the Independent Election Commission (KIP) workplace in Aceh Province.
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