Ask Unison elections, Effendi Gazali Sues Election Law

Headline - Expert Political Communication, University of Indonesia, Effendi Gazali file a judicial review of Law Election of President and Vice President of the Constitutional Court. He considered the presidential election after the legislative elections is a waste.

Effendi was sued several Articles in Law Number 42 Year 2008, namely Article 3, paragraph (5), Article 9, Article 12, paragraph (1) and (2), Article 14 paragraph (2), and Article 112.

In his petition, Effendi thought that the election presidential and vice presidential elections held after the Parliament, Council, and Parliament contrary to paragraph 1 of Article 22E of the 1945 Constitution. Effendi assessed with twice the election, then the funds to organize elections would be more wasteful.
"Should the funds be used to meet the constitutional rights of other citizens," he said at the Constitutional Court building, Jakarta, Wednesday, February 20, 2013.
Moreover, the elections are not simultaneously the convenience of citizens to exercise their right to vote in an efficient, threatened. "Suffrage and political capacity of citizens will suffer losses if the constitutional articles in this Act is enforced," he said.
If the president and vice president elections to the legislative elections held simultaneously, the voters will use their right to vote intelligently and efficiently.
"So if we believe certain elect presidents, we also will choose candidates from the same party with the president that we choose. Legislative We can also choose from a particular party, and elect a president of the other party. That can only happen if the presidential and legislative elections simultaneously, "he said.
The advantage of simultaneous elections is any other political party can nominate candidates for president. "Or political parties can jointly propose, so it must be one of the candidates presdien party," he stated.
Sources: http://nasional.news.viva.co.id/news/read/391812