JAKARTA. Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said on Friday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also the chairman of the Democratic Party, would file a judicial review on the regional election (Pilkada) bill with the Constitutional Court (MK) because of his disappointment with the results of a plenary session at the House of Representatives. During the plenary session, which ran until Friday’s pre-dawn hours, the House decided to replace direct elections of regional heads with indirect elections after lawmakers of the Democratic Party, which supported direct elections, walked out. The number of votes from the camp supporting direct elections totaled 135 only, which were far fewer than the 226 votes from the camp supporting indirect elections.
SBY to file judicial review on Pilkada bill
JAKARTA. Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said on Friday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also the chairman of the Democratic Party, would file a judicial review on the regional election (Pilkada) bill with the Constitutional Court (MK) because of his disappointment with the results of a plenary session at the House of Representatives. During the plenary session, which ran until Friday’s pre-dawn hours, the House decided to replace direct elections of regional heads with indirect elections after lawmakers of the Democratic Party, which supported direct elections, walked out. The number of votes from the camp supporting direct elections totaled 135 only, which were far fewer than the 226 votes from the camp supporting indirect elections.