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2024 Presidential Election Axis

In addition to considering the nominated presidential candidate’s chance to win power, the party has also to place public preference as the top priority in decision-making.

Former First Children Throw Hats into Election Ring

Children of former presidents will enter the fray in the 2019 legislative election. Apart from serving as their respective parties’ vote-getters, it is believed that these former first children are looking to maintain their families’ relationships with the seat of state power.

Parties Continue to Back Former Corruption Convicts as Candidates

A number of political parties have decided to violate an integrity pact not to nominate former corruption convicts as legislative candidates. The Supreme Court\'s ruling to allow former corruption convicts to run as legislative candidates was the main justification.

Supreme Court Ruling May Have Legal Flaws

The General Elections Commission (KPU) said it had accepted the Supreme Court ruling that revoked two KPU regulations banning former corruption convicts from contesting in next year’s legislative elections. However, the ruling may be legally flawed as it contradicts Law on the Constitutional Court.

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