Eko Ari Wibowo, Jakarta – The National Election Commission rejected on Tuesday the application of Pelopor Party for failing to meet the minimum percentage of female legislator candidate.

In accordance to the article 53 in Law number 10 of 2008 on legislative election, one political party required to nominate at least 30 per cent female candidates of all the candidates it is nominating.

Pelopor Party according to official in the commission, Endang Sulastri, nominated 99 legislators and female candidates only counted for 21 per cent of the total candidates.

So far, Endang said the largest percentage of female legislators were nominated by the Prosperous Justice Party (44 per cent), National Mandate Party (32 Per cent), and Golkar Party (31 per cent). The total number of female candidates according to the commission are now at 14.020, which counts 36,4 per cent of the total candidates submitted by all political parties.