JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing on the election results dispute (PHPU) for case No. 20-01-04-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. The hearing for the DPRD/DPRA (Regional Legislative Council/Aceh Legislative Council) election for the electoral district of Aceh Province 6 was filed by the Great Movement Party (Gerindra).

The hearing was presided over by the Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat (panel chair), Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih. The hearing was to hear responses from the General Elections Commission (KPU) as Respondent, the Relevant Party, and the Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu).

KPU’s Statement

The Respondent’s legal counsel Alfonsus Chandra Prasetyo conveyed the Respondent objection to the petition filed by the Petitioner. In its exception, the Respondent asserted that the petition was vague or obscuur libel.

“The petition is vague because the Petitioner only attached a table containing number of vote acquisition at several polling stations (TPS) and the vote margin without providing detailed explanation regarding independent recapitulation at each polling station,” said Alfonsus.

Gerindra as Relevant Party

On behalf of Gerindra, Yayan Septiadi said the party asserted that the Petitioner’s petition is vague and does not meet formal requirements to file a petition to the Court. Gerindra’s vote acquisition certified by the Respondent was 19,069 votes, and the Petitioner claimed it was supposed to be 14,611 votes.

Gerindra asserted that the Petitioner did not mention the locations where vote inflation had occurred, i.e. the name of villages, subdistricts, and TPS. In addition, the Petitioner’s petition is vague since there is no request for the revocation of the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 on the certification of the recapitulation result.

Meanwhile, Bawaslu in its statement asserted that it had received a report on general election violation by the voters supervisory committee (Panwaslih) of East Aceh but it did not follow up on the revision at subdistrict level. If there are corrections at the subdistrict level, a recapitulation of votes at the district level will be repeated.

Also read: Golkar Alleges Vote Inflation for Gerindra and Aceh Party in Aceh VI

Author              : Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati
Editor               : Nur R.
Translator         : Intana Selvira Fauzi, Yuniar W.

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