Bureaucratic Neutrality and the Regional Elections
This year\'s regional elections has an extremely strategic meaning for a variety of political powers at the national level.
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It has been decided that the third simultaneous regional elections will be held on June 27, 2018. From the perspective of democracy, the upcoming simultaneous regional elections will be a continuation of the first regional elections (2015) and the second regional elections (2017). However, different from the previous elections, this year\'s regional elections will be held in 171 regions, which, incidentally, are strategic regions with the largest voter population of the general election.
Therefore, this year\'s regional elections has an extremely strategic meaning for a variety of political powers at the national level. For political parties, the current regional elections are not merely an arena of democratic competition, but also an opprtunity to achieve political prestige that is expected to correlate positively to the nation’s political events in 2019, namely the concurrent legislative and presidential elections.