Gerindra: 7% Parliamentary Threshold Too High, Difficult for Parties to Achieve

Jakarta, VIVA – The Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) and head of Gerindra’s Board of Honour, Ahmad Muzani, has assessed that the proposal to raise the parliamentary threshold to 7 per cent is too high for political parties.

He said parties would find it difficult to reach such a target if the 7 per cent threshold were implemented.

“I think 7 per cent is indeed too high and it would not be easy for political parties to achieve that,” Muzani told reporters, as quoted on Monday, 23 February 2026.

Nevertheless, Muzani maintained that a parliamentary threshold is still necessary as a requirement. However, he said, the determination of the threshold must depend on future needs.

“I think it will ultimately be an agreement among colleagues in the House of Representatives as to how much the parliamentary threshold, currently at 4 per cent, will be raised — by how much or to what percentage — but I think 7 per cent is too high,” he said.

The NasDem Party has proposed that the parliamentary threshold be raised to 7 per cent. This has consistently been the position stated by NasDem’s senior figures and remains unchanged to date.

Both NasDem Chairman Surya Paloh and Deputy Chairman Saan Mustopa have stated that NasDem has always advocated for the figure to be raised to 7 per cent for inclusion in the revised Election Law.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of House Commission II Zulfikar Arse revealed that deliberations on the revision of the Election Bill would begin in 2026, after the House’s Legislation Body decided to include the bill in the 2026 National Legislation Programme.

The Constitutional Court on 29 February 2024 partially granted a judicial review petition filed by the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) against Article 414 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 on General Elections. The ruling was registered under number 116/PUU-XXI/2023.

In the ruling, the Constitutional Court found no rational basis for setting the parliamentary threshold at a minimum of 4 per cent as previously stipulated in Article 414 paragraph (1) of the Election Law. Consequently, the Court instructed lawmakers to amend the parliamentary threshold provisions before the 2029 elections.