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Political parties as pillars of democracy need to be organized and refined to realize a democratic political system, especially to realize good governance, both at the center and in the regions. This paper seeks to examine the relationship between the function of recruitment / regeneration of political parties with the phenomenon of the minimal number of pairs of regional head candidates that occur in several regions in Indonesia. In practice political parties have not optimally carried out the recruitment / regeneration function, this has been seen in the implementation of the local elections so far. There are at least two things that are the reasons; first, political parties still tend to recruit candidates who are not members of the political parties. Secondly, the emergence of regions that hold regional elections is only followed by one pair of candidates and also supported by many political parties.