Indonesia's Constitutional Court Mulls Over Independent Presidential Candidates

Indonesia holds presidential elections, but does not permit independent presidential candidates. According to this news story, a lawsuit is currently pending in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, over whether the ban on independent presidential candidates violates the Constitution.

In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that the Constitution requires states to provide for ballot access for independent candidates. At the time, 12 states made it impossible for anyone to be an independent presidential candidate, but those bans were all removed after the 1974 decision, which was called Storer v Brown.


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