“Erick Thohir can close Prabowo Subianto’s weakness so far, which has always lost in East Java in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections,” he said.
Registration for presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled for October 19, 2023 to November 25, 2023.
Based on Law Number 7/2017 on Elections (Election Law), presidential and vice-presidential candidates are proposed by a political party or a coalition of political parties participating in the election that meets the requirements of obtaining at least 20 percent of the total seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the national valid votes in the previous DPR elections.
Currently, there are 575 seats in the parliament so that the presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs in the 2024 presidential election must have the support of at least 115 seats in the DPR RI.
Candidate pairs can also be nominated by political parties or a coalition of political parties participating in the 2019 elections with a total of 34,992,703 valid votes.
