The Petitioner’s legal counsel Ucok Edison Marpaung conveying the main point of the petition in preliminary hearing on 2024 legislative election results dispute of Papua Pegunungan Province on Friday (5/3/2024) on Panel 1. Photo by MKRI/Panji.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The National Democratic Party (NasDem) filed a petition on 2024 general election results dispute (PHPU) to the Constitutional Court (MK). NasDem questions the difference in votes for the filling of member candidates for House of Representatives (DPR) of the Papua Pegunungan Electoral District (Dapil), DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) Nduga Regency 1, DPRD Nduga Regency 3, and DPRD Yahukimo Regency 4.

He said that the difference between the vote acquisition of the NasDem by the Petitioner and the Respondent (KPU/General Elections Commission) reached 80,975 votes. According to him, these votes were transferred to other parties, including PSI (Indonesian Solidarity Party) and PAN (National Mandate Part). As a result of the reduction in vote acquisition and the addition of other parties' votes, NasDem lost one seat in Papua Region III, so NasDem failed to get its second seat.

In fact, if the NasDem’s vote as requested by the Petitioner is in accordance with the Papuan Pegunungan customary agreement of 551,293 votes, the NasDem will get the third seat.

"If the NasDem’s votes are returned to the acquisition in accordance with the agreement of the indigenous Papuan Pegunungan of 551,293 votes, so that the NasDem gets the third," said the Ucok Edison Marpaung in the plenary courtroom of Building 1 of the Court, Central Jakarta on Friday, May 3, 2024.

On his petitum, the Petitioner requests to the Court to cancel the KPU Decree Number 360 of 2024 throughout the vote acquisition of the DPR in Papua Pegunungan, Nduga Regency DPRD 1, Electoral District 3, and DPRD Yahukimo Regency 4 as well as to determine the correct vote acquisition results  for filling the membership of the DPR in Papua Pegunungan as follows: NasDem 187,780 votes and the third seat; restore the correct vote acquisition for Nduga Regency 1 DPRD is NasDem with 9,044 votes; Nduga Regency 3 DPRD is NasDem with 2,198 votes; Papua Pegunungan DPR is NasDem with 5,069 votes and the third seat.(*)

Author              : Mimi Kartika
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Andhini S.F.
Translator         : Jessica Rivena Meilania

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