Jakarta, Legal Literacy - The 2024 General Election (Pemilu) process has now entered the stage of national vote counting throughout Indonesia. The final results of the voting held on February 14, 2024 will determine whether the 2024 Presidential Election will take place in one round or two rounds.
As is known, the 2024 Presidential Election is being contested by three pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates, namely Anies Baswedan – Muhaimin Iskandar, Prabowo Subianto – Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and Ganjar Pranowo – Mahfud MD.
Based on the quick count results from the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI), the Prabowo-Gibran pair managed to excel with a total vote acquisition of 57.46 percent, while Anies-Muhaimin won 25.30 percent of the votes and Ganjar-Mahfud only 17.23 percent. These results raise the question of whether there is still a possibility of a second round in the 2024 Presidential Election.
According to the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy & Strategic (Indostrategic), Ahmad Khoirul Umam, the acquisition of figures from the quick count shows that the 2024 Presidential Election will likely only take place in one round. Although the quick count results are not official, based on the acquisition of these votes, Prabowo-Gibran will most likely be announced as the winner of the 2024 Presidential Election.
Umam also noted that in the two previous Presidential Elections, namely the 2014 and 2019 Presidential Elections, the winning figures for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates were below the previous survey results. However, in the 2024 Presidential Election, the winning figures for the Prabowo-Gibran pair are actually higher than the survey results from various institutions.
The requirement for a second round in the 2024 Presidential Election is based on Article 6A paragraph (3) The Basic Law of the State of the Republic of Indonesia (UUD) of 1945, which stipulates that the determination of the president and vice president requires more than 50 percent of the total votes, with at least 20 percent of the votes in each province spread across more than half the number of provinces in Indonesia.
Article 416 paragraph (2) of the Election Law also states that if no pair of presidential and vice-presidential candidates manages to win more than 50 percent of the total votes, with a minimum of 20 percent of the votes in each province in more than half of the total provinces in Indonesia, then a second round of elections will be held.
In the scenario of the 2024 Presidential Election's second round, voter data updates and voter list compilation will be conducted from March 22, 2024, to April 25, 2024. The election campaign period will take place from Sunday, June 2, 2024, to Saturday, June 22, 2024, with a quiet period starting from Sunday, June 23, 2024, to Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Voting will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, followed by vote counting from Wednesday, June 26, 2024, to Thursday, June 27, 2024, and recapitulation of vote counting results from Thursday, June 27, 2024, to Saturday, July 20, 2024.
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