The Respondent’s legal counsel at hearing for case No. 175-02-01-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 on the 2024 legislative election result dispute presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat (panel chair), Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih to hear responses from the Respondent, Relevant Parties, and Bawaslu, Tuesday (5/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.
JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing over the 2024 election results dispute (PHPU) of the Aceh Regency/City Legislative Council (DPRK) to hear responses from the General Elections Commission (KPU) as Respondent, Relevant Parties, and and Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu). The hearing was filed by H. Hasbi Ahmad, a DPRK candidate for electoral district North Aceh 5 from the National Awakening Party (PKB). The hearing for case No. 175-02-01-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, presided over by the Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat (panel chair), Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih on the Panel 3.
At the hearing, the Respondent provided answers related to the Petitioner’s vote purge in Lapang Subdistrict of the North Aceh Regency 5 by 130 votes was incorrect because based on D Results Model Form of Regency/City DPRK, the Petitioner's votes were 54 votes. The KPU also explained that the vote inflation on behalf of Muhammad Rizal in Lapang Subdistrict of the North Aceh Regency amounting to 193 votes was incorrect because based on D Results Model Form of Regency/City DPRK, his votes were 1,500 votes.
In addition, the KPU asserted that the vote purge for the PKB in Lapang Subdistrict by 46 votes was incorrect because based on the D Results Model Form of Regency/City DPRK, the PKB obtained only 1 vote.
Based on the answers that have been explained, the Respondent requests the Court to grant the Respondent's exception in its entirety, reject all of the Petitioners' requests, and declare the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 valid.
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Meanwhile, Bawaslu in its statement explained that based on the supervision’s results of voters supervisory committee (Panwaslih) of the North Regency, during the open plenary meeting of recapitulation of vote counting results at the Regency level on March 4, 2024 in the Hall Room of the Aceh Independent Election Commission (KIP) of North Aceh Secretariat, there were only objections from the Great Movement Party (Gerindra) and Democrat Party witnesses. They requested a Quick Administration settlement during the recapitulation for the DPRK level in Lapang Subdistrict, and there were no objections from the PKB Party witnesses.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Rizal, North Aceh Regency DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) candidate number 4 from the PKB as the Relevant Party, said in his statement that the legal position of the Petitioner’s petition was a wrong and erroneous legal basis. According to the Relevant Party, the Court should state that the Petitioner does not have legal standing.
Furthermore, the Relevant Party said that the Petitioner's petition was unclear or obscuur libel due to no detail explanation regarding the vote dispute for the Party's votes and all candidates’ votes, so it became unclear when all party votes and candidates from the PKB were only alleged to the Relevant Party, even though there were many candidates from the PKB in North Aceh 5, thus making the arguments of the Petitioner's petition unclear.
In the end, the Relevant Party explained that the Petitioner's vote purge in Lapang Subdistrict of North Aceh Regency by 130 votes, was invalid because the votes were valid votes from each polling station and had been carried out a tiered plenary attended and/or witnessed by village elections supervisory (PPG), polling committee (PPS), Subdistrict Election Committee (PPK), subdistrict election supervisory committee (Panwascam), Aceh Utara Regency KIP, KIP Aceh, and political party witnesses including witnesses from the PKB Party without any objections, rebuttals, or incidents.
In its statement, the Relevant Party said that the vote inflation for other candidates in Lapang Subdistrict of North Aceh Regency of 191 votes, was incorrect because the votes were valid votes from each polling station and had been carried out a tiered plenary attended and/or witnessed by PPG, PPS, PPK, PANWASCAM, KIP North Aceh District, Panwaslih North Aceh, KIP Aceh, elections supervisory committee (Panwaslu) Aceh, and political party witnesses including witnesses from the PKB Party without any objections, rebuttals, or incidents.(*)
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