Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Moh. Mahfud MD with Maria Farida Indrati and Anwar Usman (each as member of the panel) listening to the petition on the Dispute over Second Round Election result in Kaur Regency with the agenda of case examination, Friday (6/4) at the panel courtroom
Jakarta, MKOnline - Regent and Vice Regent candidate pair Joharman Ma’in Saleh andAnhar Basaruddin made a claim on the result of second round election in Kaur Regency to the Constitutional Court (The Court). The initial examination was held on Friday (6/4) at The Court’s panel room. The Panel of Justices for this case was chaired by the Chief Justice, Moh. Mahfud MD.
Attending the session was Principal Petitioner Anhar Basaruddin with his counsels. Also attending was the Principal Respondents, Head of Kaur Election Commission, Arfan Effendi with several members of the Election Commission (KPU) and their counsel. Meanwhile, the Related Party (the elected candidates) also presented their Principal, candidate No. 5, Hermen Malik and Yulis Suti Sutri.
In their petition, candidate pair No. 11 argued over several misconducts done by the Respondents and Related Party. According to them, the fraudulence and violations existed were structured, systematic and massive as it involved people in government structure and it happened all over Kaur area. “Involving civil servants and teachers,” revealed one of the Petitioners’ counsels.
In fact, not only those violations, according to him the Supervisory Committee were also not fair for not doing their job professionally. “It is proven by so many reports without any follow ups,” he continued.
There are some arguments proposed by Petitioners’ counsel; among others, the Respondents being not fair and took a side of the Related Party, objection form for Petitioners’ witnesses when they were going to write their objections were not given, Money Politics committed by the Related Party.
Besides that, the Petitioners also questioned the signing of the Minutes of the Vote Recapitulation by a member of Kaur KPU, eksar Efendi. According to the Petitioners, Eksar should been temporary dimissed and should not have signed the the Minutes of Proceeding because Eksar had been convicted in a corruption allegation case. The Petitioner referred to Article 31 paragraph (1) letter a of Act No. 22 of 2007 about Organizer of General Election which basically stated that a member of KPU who had a convicted status was temporarily dismissed.
The next session would be held on Monday (11/4) at 13.00 in The Court scheduled for hearing to answers from the Respondents and Related Party also substantiation (Dodi/mh/YDJ)
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