A Hard-to-Reach Level

The presidential threshold reduces the chances of new presidential candidates from running. The 20 percent is too high.

February 24, 2009

THE presidential election on July 9 will have the fewest candidates since the reform era began. It is unlikely that new faces will join the race for the presidential seat at such short notice. The chance for independent candidates was ended by the Constitutional Court last week when it rejected the judicial review of Law No. 42/2008 on the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections. The constitutional judges ruled that the provision that only po

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