The Respondent and legal counsels at a follow-up hearing follow-up hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of for case No. 16-01-22-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024, Tuesday (5/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing on dispute over the 2024 DPR (House of Representatives) and DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election results submitted by the Aceh Party (PAS Aceh) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The hearing for case No. 16-01-22-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih on panel 3. The agenda was to hear to the Respondent’s (General Elections Commission/KPU) response, the Relevant Party’s statement, Bawaslu’s (Elections Supervisory Body) statement, and the validation of evidence. 

At the previous hearing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, PAS Aceh (the Petitioner) through its legal counsel Sayuti Abubakar argued the difference in vote acquisition between the Petitioner and the KPU (Respondent). According to the Petitioner, it should have received 16,923 votes while Gerindra (Great Movement Party) received 14,935 votes. These results were different from those announced by the Respondent where Gerindra received more votes than PAS Aceh (19,069 votes).

KPU’s Statements

Through legal counsel Arie Achmad, the KPU, said, “The Petitioner does not question the description of votes obtained by each of the parties concerned.”

It argues that the petition does not meet the legal requirements because it does not include a clear vote count. The Petitioner only argues about vote inflation without providing further explanation regarding the inflated votes. Therefore, in its petitum, the Respondent requests the Court to accept all of the Respondent’s exceptions and declare the Petition inadmissible.

Gerindra’s Response

Gerindra’s (Relevant Party) legal counsel Hanif Yudha Prawira stated that the Petitioner’s petition was unclear. The Petitioner argues that PAS Aceh’s votes were 16,923 according to the Respondent, and 16,923 according to the Petitioner. This means there is no difference.

The Respondent certified 19,069 votes for Gerindra and 14,935 votes for the Petitioner. However, the Petitioner could not compare the Relevant Party’s votes in its version to prove the difference in votes.

Bawaslu’s Response

Bawaslu, represented by Suryadi, testified that the Aceh voters supervisory committee (Panwaslih) on March 13, 2024 received a report on an alleged administrative violation from the Aceh Party. The report met the formal and material requirements.

The verdict of the decree on the report stated that a violation had occurred. Then the next report on administrative violations was not continued because the report was related to criminal violations.

Also read: PAS Aceh Accused Gerindra of Vote Inflation

Author              : Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati
Editor               : Nur R.
Translator         : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar, Yuniar W.

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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