Legal counsel petitioner Andri Alisman conveying the main point of the petition on the 2024 legislative election results dispute of North Sumatera, Thursday (5/2/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Great Movement Party (Gerindra) has filed a petition over the 2024 General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) to the Constitutional Court (MK) concerning changes of acquisition of seats for Medan City DPRD Members. According to the petitioner, this occurred because of a dispute over the vote acquisition in the application for the calculation of the 12th seat or the last seat to fill to the Medan City DPRD, Medan City Election District III, East Medan Sub-district between the Gerindra and the National Awakening Party (PKB).

"For PKB according to the General Elections Commission (KPU) 11,520 votes, while according to the Petitioner 11,496 votes. There is a difference of about 24 votes. The addition of votes made by KPU to PKB in several villages, especially in several polling stations, namely in Glugur Darat I Village, the addition of votes made by the Respondent to the PKB Party as many as 3 votes that occurred at polling station 01 Glugur Darat I Village, East Medan Subdistrict, Medan City, North Sumatra Province based on the C Copy Results and C Plano Results juxtaposed with the District results," Andri Alisman explained as legal counsel in a hearing held on Thursday Morning (2/5/2024).

In addition, Andri also explained that there was an addition of votes made by the Respondent to PKB by 1 vote which occurred at polling station 06 Glugur Darat I Village, East Medan Subdistrict, Medan City, North Sumatra Province. The addition of PKB votes by 1 vote, which was originally recorded in Model C.Copy Results and Model C.Plano Results at polling station 06 Glugur Darat Village, East Medan Subdistrict, Medan City, North Sumatra Province, was 14 votes, then the PKB Party's votes in Model D.Results at polling station 06 Glugur Darat Village, East Medan Subdistrict, Medan City, North Sumatra Province became 15 votes.

In the petitum of Case Number 199-01-02-02/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024, the Petitioner requested the Constitutional Court to cancel KPU Decree Number 360 of 2024 as far as Medan City Election District 3 to fill candidates for Medan City DPRD members and to determine the correct vote acquisition results according to the Petitioner to fill of Medan City DPRD members in Medan City Electoral District 3, PKB received 11,496 votes and Gerindra 11,509 votes. (*)

Author  : Utami Argawati
Editor   : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR    : Andhini S.F.
Translator    : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar

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

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