00:00A number of political parties have taken the lead in the election of the head of the Probolinggo region.
00:08In the 2024 Probolinggo election,
00:12the dynamics of the political parties in Probolinggo have shown that there will be a major coalition.
00:18The election of the head of the Probolinggo region with a pair of candidates between Gus Haris, Gerindra, and Ra Fahmi, PKB,
00:25in the stock market, the candidates for the head of the Probolinggo region are getting stronger.
00:29So, is it good for our democracy to have a single candidate in the election?
00:37Various political parties in Probolinggo have formed a mass coalition,
00:42the registration of the pair of candidates for the election of the head of the Probolinggo region,
00:46which will be held two more months in August.
00:50The need for coalition is caused by the fact that almost all political parties
00:54get seats below the threshold of 20%, or at least 10 seats,
01:01out of a total of 50 seats in the Probolinggo Regional Council of Representatives.
01:07According to Law No. 10 of 2016,
01:11political parties can register the pair of head of the Probolinggo region
01:15and the head of the Probolinggo region by using the seats obtained from the last election.
01:22Based on the seats obtained by the Probolinggo Regional Council of Representatives in the last election,
01:27political parties that get seats below 10, including PKB, 9 seats,
01:33Gerindra, 9 seats,
01:35Nasdem, 8 seats,
01:37PDIP, 7 seats,
01:39P3, 6 seats,
01:41and PKS, 1 seat,
01:43while only one party meets the minimum threshold of seats
01:48so that they can nominate a candidate without having to coalition,
01:52namely the Golkar party with 10 seats.
01:55The dynamics of political parties in Probolinggo have shown that there will be a major coalition.
02:01This can be seen so far by several parliamentary parties,
02:04namely P3, PKS, and Golkar have supported
02:09Muhammad Haris Damanhuri Romli or often known as Gus Haris from Gerindra.
02:15Support for Gus Haris also comes from non-parliamentary parties such as PSI,
02:20Buruh Party, Garuda Party, PKN, PBB, Demokrat Party, Perindo Party, Gelora Party, and Umat Party.
02:29In addition, there are recent rumors that PKB will join the major coalition
02:36by nominating Fahmi Abdul Haq or Akrab in Sapara Fahmi
02:42to accompany Gus Haris.
02:44This major coalition has received criticism from Hassan Aminuddin,
02:48a former Probolinggo regent,
02:50who is in the middle of a case of TPPU and gratification.
02:54He said that a major coalition by nominating only one candidate is proof of the decline of democracy.
03:01Meanwhile, only two parties have seats in the DPRD,
03:06such as PDIP and NASDEM,
03:08which opens the network of candidates for regional leaders.
03:11But until now, the direction of politics has not been determined.
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