FERRY Tinggogoy, a member of the National Awakening Party (PKB) is very relieved. He will now be able to run in the direct election for Governor of North Sulawesi in June. The Constitutional Court ruled the stipulation that only parties having seats on the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) have the right to propose candidates for the post as invalid. This is rational and more just.

The PKB has no seats in the North Sulawesi DPRD, but