MPR Convenes Over Vice Presidential Vacancy After Gibran Steps Down
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- Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly is preparing to fill the vice presidency following Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s reported resignation.
- The assembly’s joint meeting will address the selection timetable, presidential nominations and preparations for a plenary session.
- Assembly Speaker Ahmad Muzani said the vacancy must be filled within 60 days, with President Prabowo Subianto given 14 days to submit two nominees after receiving a formal request.
JAKARTA, Indonesianpost.com — Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) is holding a joint meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss filling the vice presidency after Gibran Rakabuming Raka announced his resignation.
The meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. Western Indonesia Time at the Nusantara V building in Jakarta’s parliamentary complex.
The meeting will bring together the assembly’s leadership and other internal bodies to prepare for a plenary session to fill the vice presidential vacancy.
MPR Speaker Ahmad Muzani said on Thursday, November 12, that the joint meeting would address four matters: setting a date for the plenary session; approving a letter asking President Prabowo Subianto to submit two nominees for vice president; establishing a team to verify the nominees’ documents; and approving an ad hoc team to prepare a draft MPR decree.
Muzani said the assembly had no more than 60 days to fill the vacancy. Within that period, Prabowo would have 14 days to submit two nominees after the assembly issued its formal request.
According to Muzani, the vice presidency became vacant following Gibran’s resignation. Gibran personally submitted his resignation letter to the assembly on Thursday.
“As of today, the office of vice president of the Republic of Indonesia is vacant, and the MPR must fill the position within 60 days at the latest,” Muzani told a press conference at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Thursday. [Antara/Bilah]
