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The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Anwar Usman, accompanied by other Constitutional Justices at the ruling hearing of Labuhanbatu Regent Election Result Dispute on Monday afternoon, (22/03) in the Plenary Court Room of the Constitutional Court. Photo: PR/Ifa.

JAKARTA, PUBLIC RELATIONS - The Constitutional Court (MK) held the ruling hearing over Election Result Dispute cases for Regional Head in 2020, Monday (22/3/2021). One of the decisions read out this afternoon was decision No. 58/PHP.BUP-XIX/2021 of Labuhanbatu (North Smatera) Regent Election Results Dispute filled by Candidate Pair Erik Adtrada Ritonga and Ellya Rosa Siregar (Erik -Ellya).

In the verdict, the Court stated that Erik-Ellya had partially granted the petition. "[The Court] granted the Petitioner's petition in part," said Plenary Chairperson of the Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman accompanied by other Constitutional Justices  when reading the decision online from the Plenary Court Room of the Constitutional Court.

The Court also annul the Decree of Labuhanbatu General Election Commission (KPU) No. 176/PL.02.6-Kpt/1210/KPU-Kab/XII/2020 concerning the Determination of Vote Count Results Recapitulation, dated December 16, 2020, as long as it concerned the vote acquisition of each candidate pair in 9 (nine) polling stations (TPS), namely TPS 005, TPS 007, TPS 009, TPS 010, and TPS 013 Bakaran Batu Village, Rantau Selatan District; TPS 009 and TPS 017 Siringo-ringo Village, Rantau Utara District; TPS 003 Pangkat Village, Pangkat District, and TPS 014 Negeri Lama Village, Bilah Hilir District.

Furthermore, the Court ordered Labuhanbatu KPU to carry out a re-voting (PSU) at 9 TPS and shall held within 30 working days from the pronouncement of this decision. In addition, the Court ordered Labuhanbatu KPU to appoint the Chairperson and Members of the Polling Station Working Committee (KPPS) and Sub-district Election Committee (PPK) associated with the TPS.

Constitutional Justice Aswanto explained a series of legal facts which proved that the election organizers at the TPS were subject to sanctions. According to the Court, there had been a voting process that was not in accordance with the provisions of the prevailing laws and regulations. This was not only related to the violations issue of the code of ethics and the behavior of election administrators, but also injured the principles of honest and fair elections (jurdil) as mandated by Article 22E Paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution.

Therefore, for the sake of obtaining an accountable result, the Court ordered re-vote to be carried out at the 9 TPS.

 

Writer: Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati
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Translation uploaded on 03/22/2021 at 22.40 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian version, the Indonesian version will prevail.

 

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