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VIVAnews - United Development Party faction refused to increase in number of parliamentary threshold or minimum threshold of votes in parliament. According to PPP, the rate of 2.5 percent now worth keeping.

"Consolidation of democracy, among others, performed with the simplification of the political party parliamentary threshold thereby promote the establishment of a main controller that," said Secretary of the PPP faction M Romahurmuziy, "but its application is also not to kill democracy."

Romy explained, lifted it high number of PT is antidemocratic because it sounds the same as multiplying the number of burned / wasted. With PT 2.5 percent in elections in 2009, wasted votes of more than 18 million or nearly one-fifth of the valid votes.

"Raise the PT only diminishes the legitimacy of representation of the House. Because 2.5 percent is already a limit that should be maintained and there is no reason to tamper with it," said Deputy Secretary General of the PPP was in writing to VIVAnews, Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

PPP hope the majority do not have an oligarchy and democracy on behalf of the people who actually performed the castration of the votes were valid under the law. "If the reason of simplification towards the future political system of the bipolar, might as well be made the number of PT 25 percent, so that the party stayed two pieces," said Romy.

The system adopted for parliamentary threshold Elections Act applicable to make the party who can sit in parliament is a reach at least 2.5 of the valid votes nationally. This rule is made, the period of 2009-2014 parliament filled only nine of the party. (Sj)