The General Election COMMISSION (KPU) is confident that the Constitutional Court (MK) will refer to Law Number 7/2017 concerning Elections in deciding the dispute over the results of the 2024 Presidential-Vice Presidential Election requested by the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md camps. The Constitutional Court’s competence in the Election Law is related to disputes over differences in presidential election results.
Member of the Indonesian KPU, Idham Holik, said that his party believes that the Constitutional Court’s decision will refer to Article 473 paragraph (3) and Article 475 paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of the Law on Elections. The regulation he mentioned explained that disputes regarding the determination of vote results in the presidential election were carried out through the Constitutional Court.
“Because in the Election Law, PHPU for the presidential election concerns disputes over election results which affect the election participants’ electability. Why is that? Because the election justice system is systematically and explicitly regulated in the Election Law,” said Idham to Media Indonesia, Tuesday (16/4).
According to Idham, structured, systematic and massive administrative violations (TSM) are a form of violation whose resolution is carried out by the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and the Supreme Court. This is based on Articles 286 and 463 of the Election Law.
Idham emphasized that whatever the Constitutional Court’s decision is, the KPU is obliged to follow it up. This is in accordance with Article 475 paragraph (4) of the Election Law. According to him, the Constitutional Court’s decision is ergo ormes.
Meanwhile, member and Head of the Legal and Supervision Division of the Indonesian KPU, Mochammad Afifuddin, revealed that his party had submitted 139 pieces of evidence during the trial of the dispute over the results of the 2024 Presidential Election at the Constitutional Court. 68 of them are evidence for the case filed by the Anies-Muhaimin camp, while the other 71 are for the case filed by Ganjar-Mahfud.
Today, apart from submitting the conclusion of the 2024 President-Vice President PHPU trial as the respondent, the KPU also provided additional evidence. Afif said the evidence was as requested by the panel of constitutional judges at the previous trial.
“In the form of form D. Special Events at sub-district level throughout Indonesia,” said Afif. (Tri/Z-7)
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