Bambang Karyono

Abstract: This study aims to know and analyze; (1) the position of the sole candidate for regional head in the election and (2) the concept of regulating single candidates in the election, based on the democratic perspective. This research is normative research. The sample in this study is the sole candidate of regional head in Indonesia. Research method is done through problem approach which is approach of legislation and conceptual approach. The legal substances that have been collected are analyzed by using descriptive qualitative analysis. The results of this study are: (1) The existence of the Single Candidate of the Regional Head in the Election of the Head of Region simultaneously based on the Decision of the Constitutional Court Number 100 / PUU-XIII / 2015 and Law Number 10 of 2016 Selection of Head of Region with the sole candidate is the election conducted in a democratic perspective caused by the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) by placing a Plebiscite as the basis for issuing an improper verdict permissible single candidate in the elections simultaneously held by electoral mechanism, because plebiscite to ask the people as voters to decide whether to “agree” or “not agree “with the candidate pair. So this cannot be said to remain in the perspective of democracy because society is not choosing to agree or disagree over the policy changes; and (2) The concept of regulating a single candidate in the election of a Regional Head based on a democratic perspective is a change of Law Number 10 of 2016 by considering the Stipulation of a single candidate as the winner of the Regional Head Election (acclamation), Single Candidate Pair is declared dead and unable to nominate self-returning, Candidate Doll is another form of single candidate, as well as the determination of the maximum limit of support from the political party path.

Keywords: single candidate, election of regional head, perspective democracy

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