PROBLEMATIKA PUTUSAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI TENTANG DERAJAT KETERWAKILAN TINGGI DALAM SENGKETA ALOKASI KURSI PEMILU
Abstract
Democratization in Indonesia yield high tension of political-election dispute. Constitutional Court has authority to judge any lawsuit on both election and local government election dispute. How good The Constitutional Court verdicts on election? Refers to yielding of any verdict, The Constitutional Court itself facing problems with the method s of interpretation and became crucial point to yield good and acceptable verdict. This article aim to elaborate method of interpretation of constitution connecting to review of constitution between Kelsenian and Madisonian’s tradition. Furthermore it emphasize the logic of inter connection among legislation, method of interpretation and The Constitutional Court’s verdict. Review to election disputes in the constitutional court, many aspects such as counts of vote, seat allocation, election fraud and technical manipulation in the election process happened. This paper focus on exploring the aspect of seat allocation. It will examine with critical review those issues of degree of proportionality in The Constitutional Court verdicts. The method used is the Index Gallagher and Pukelsheim to explain the degree of proportionality in the Constitutional Court’s verdicts against the allocation of seats. As result, the quality of the Court’s verdicts is not better than the Election Commission’s verdicts that they canceled. From those evidence, The Constitutional Court’s method of interpretation should be improved.
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PDFDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33331/rechtsvinding.v3i1.56
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