South Tangerang residents have asked Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi to directly appoint an official from the ministry office to replace acting mayor Eutik Suarta, an official at the Banten provincial administration, who will vacate his post on Jan. 24.
“We proposed this to the minister as part of efforts to maintain neutrality in the mayoral election re-run,” former chairman of the South Tangerang Formation Presidium Zarkasih Noor said in a discussion Thursday.
He said he had sent a letter requesting the minister to select a substitute for the acting mayor from the ministry office.
“We want the mayoral election re-run to go smoothly and honestly,” he said.
Agil Novebrianto, a student activist, concurred.
He said it had been proven that the current acting mayor Eutik Suarta failed to show his neutrality in the election process.
The recent South Tangerang election result was annulled by the Constitution Court, which then ordered a re-run next month.
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