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The Constitutional Court held an online ruling hearing session for the 2020 West Sumatra Governor Election Results Dispute, Tuesday (16/02) in the courtroom of the Constitutional Court. Photo: PR/Ifa.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—The Constitutional Court (MK) held the ruling hearing of West Sumatra Governor Election Results Dispute, Monday (15/2/2021), in the plenary courtroom. A total of 33 decisions were read out in the morning-evening session which divided into three online sessions. The first session was held at 09.00 WIB to read out 14 decisions. Then, the second session, at 13.00 WIB, reads out 8 decisions. While, the third session, at 16.00 WIB,  the Court read out 11 decisions.

In the legal considerations read out by Constitutional Justice Wahiduddin Adams, the Court said that the total difference in votes between the Petitioner and the winning candidate pair was 1.5% x 2,241,292 votes (total valid votes), namely 33,619 votes.

"Whereas the Petitioner' vote acquisition was 614,477 votes. Meanwhile, the votes acquired by the Relevant Party was 726,853 votes. Thus, the difference in the vote acquisition between the Petitioner and the Relevant Party was 726,853 votes minus 614,477 votes, namely 112,376 (5.01%) or 33,619 votes, " explained Wahiduddin.

Wahiduddin continued, based on these legal considerations, even though the Petitioner was a candidate pair for the 2020 West Sumatra Governor, they did not fulfil the requirements for filing a petition as referred to Article 158 Paragraph (1) Letter B of Law 10/2016. Hence, the Court stated that the Petitioner did not have the legal standing to submit the petition.

The petition did not meet the requirements as per the regulation regarding the legal standing. "Even if these provisions were distorted, quod non has been proven that the Petitioner' arguments are legally groundless. Other matters relating to the a quo petition were not considered because it has no relevance and therefore it must also be declared groundless according to law," Wahiduddin explained.

Previously, Mulyadi-Ali Mukhni filed the petition 129/PHP.GUB-XIX/20 said that the implementation of the 2020 West Sumatra Governor Election did not run democratically and was not based on honest and fair (jurdil) election, especially in the bounded enforcement process of law. In the principal of the petition pleading, the Petitioner stated that law enforcement in particular did not show the principle of equality and that there were real efforts made by either other candidates or election organizers. In this case, he continued, the Integrated Law Enforcement Centre (consist of the elements from Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), Attorney General's Office, and Police), had enforced the determination of the suspect against the Petitioner. (*)

 

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