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The Constitutional Court rejected the petition filed by the Candidate Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Pagar Alam Number 9 Septiana Zuraida-Bambang Hermanto. Verdict 8/PHPU.D-XI/2013 number was read by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Moh. Mahfud MD. He was assisted by eight constitutional justices on Tuesday (19/2) at the Plenary Court.

 

"That said, the Exception, rejected the Respondent\'s exception. In the principal issue, rejected the petition entirely," he said.

 

Court is Petitioners\' argument about the existence of other violations, according to the Court, did not prove conclusively that another violation occurs in a structured, systematic and massive significantly affect the vote Petitioner. "Therefore, according to the Court, the argument was not unreasonable under the law. Considering that based on all the considerations above description, according to the Court, Petitioner\'s arguments are not grounded in the law," the constitutional judge said.

 

In his petition, Petitioner argues Pagar Alam City Election Commission violated by printing ballots exceeds the provisions of the legislation, so that the ballot papers used for the City of Pagar Alam Election In 2013 there was an excess up to 6,000 sheets of letter sounds. According to the Court, the Respondent has done the right thing in addressing the shortage of ballot papers in the City of Pagar Alam Election 2013, after all, based on the evidence submitted by the Respondent, all remaining ballots either were damaged and the rest of the excess printing of ballot papers used for cover shortage of ballot papers had been destroyed by the Respondent.

 

"So the excess printing of ballots conducted by the Respondent is not an offense intended to win one of the candidates in the General Election Year 2013 City of Pagar Alam. Thus, according to the Court Petitioners\' argument is groundless according to law, "the judge said constitution.

 

Additionally, Petitioner argues that the Respondent has conducted a series of other offenses, such as phase change program, and schedule Pagar Alam City Election Year 2013, especially in the determination of the sequence number candidates are not in accordance with applicable regulations; many graffiti and parts that are not filled in Form C-1; a paper seal to seal the ballots and ballot boxes were found in some polling stations, and the voters who have died but still got the letter of invitation to choose. After the Court to examine and observe the Petitioner and Respondent rebuttal arguments and evidence presented by the Petitioner and the Respondent, according to the Court, the Petitioners\' argument that there has been a series of violations by the Respondent at the time of implementation of the City of Pagar Alam Election Year 2013 proved not quite convincing.

 

"If violations occur argued by the Applicant, quad non, according to the Court the violation is not an offense that is structured, systematic and massive influence voting rank candidates. Therefore, according to the Court, the Petitioners\' argument is groundless according to law, "the judge explained the constitution.

 

Then, the argument concerning the mobilization of civil servant and civil servants was conducted by the Related Parties. According to the Court, the Petitioners\' argument that there have been abuses in the form of an invitation to the Related Party civil servant, civil servants, and TKS to select the Related Parties has proven. However, according to the Court, the violation was not followed by concrete steps were controlled systematically by using existing structures and extended so that the offense is not an offense that is structured, systematic and massive influence voting rank candidates. (Lulu Anjarsari / mh)

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