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        "msgid": "peoples-movement-proposes-zero-per-cent-parliamentary-threshold-to-prevent-wasted-votes-1772197235",
        "date": "2026-02-27 17:55:24",
        "title": "People's Movement Proposes Zero Per Cent Parliamentary Threshold to Prevent Wasted Votes",
        "author": "Ardito Ramadhan",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Gerakan Rakyat (People's Movement) chairman Sahrin Hamid has proposed eliminating the parliamentary threshold entirely, setting it to zero per cent, to ensure no voter votes are wasted in elections. Sahrin argues that all votes cast by citizens should be convertible into parliamentary seats, and that simplification of political parties can be achieved through faction thresholds at the parliamentary level rather than electoral thresholds.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta \u2013 Gerakan Rakyat (People\u2019s Movement) chairman Sahrin Hamid\nhas proposed changing the parliamentary threshold to zero per cent to\nensure no voter votes are wasted in elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sahrin stated that every vote cast by citizens must be convertible\ninto parliamentary seats. \u201cWe do not want even a single vote from the\nelections conducted by the people to be wasted,\u201d Sahrin said during the\nfirst anniversary celebration of Gerakan Rakyat on Friday, 27 February\n2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this means that when the people exercise their rights, we want\nall votes to be converted into seats. Therefore, given that the\npresidential threshold is now zero per cent, Gerakan Rakyat also\nadvocates that the parliamentary threshold should also be zero per\ncent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sahrin believes that simplification of political parties can still be\nachieved without implementing a parliamentary threshold. \u201cEven if\nsimplification is built, that simplification should be done at the\nfaction level. In fact, it is the faction threshold that should be\nestablished. We have done this before and I believe it can achieve\nbalance and what has been possible so far,\u201d Sahrin said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that this arrangement is not new, as it has already been\npractised in several regions. \u201cAnd I believe regions have already\npractised this. So this is nothing new,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Various political parties hold differing views regarding the\nparliamentary threshold to be proposed in revisions to electoral law,\nranging from abolishing it entirely to maintaining it or changing its\npercentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party, for instance, has proposed raising the\nparliamentary threshold to seven per cent. However, this proposal has\nbeen deemed too high by several other parties.<\/p>",
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