The Respondent's legal counsel Bakhtiar Panji Taufiq Ulung delivering a statement at a follow-up hearing of the 2024 legislative election results dispute of Bekasi 2 of West Java Province, Wednesday (5/8/2024) on Panel 1. Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) stated that the petition filed by Gerindra Party legislative candidate Lydia Fransisca against the addition of votes to other candidates was unclear or obscuur libel. The petitioner argued the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) with unclear reasons such as mistakenly summing up votes and the number of polling stations.

"There is an error in determining the number of polling stations and the results of the vote count (object of PHPU dispute) per polling stations in the six villages mentioned above, causing the petition to be unclear or vague (obscuur libel)," said Bakhtiar Panji Taufiq Ulung as the Respondent's legal counsel answering the petition for Case Number 59-02-02-12/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024. The case was heard in Panel 1 presided over by Chief Justice Suhartoyo accompanied by Constitutional Justice Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and Justice M. Guntur Hamzah in Panel Courtroom Building 2 of the Constitutional Court, Central Jakarta on Wednesday (8/5/2024).

The KPU said that the correct vote acquisition in the election of Bekasi Regency DPRD member electoral district 2 for Iwan Setiawan was 10,511 votes and Lydia Fransisca was 9,333 votes. However, according to the Petitioner, Iwan Setiawan's vote was 8,989 votes and Lydia Fransisca's was 9,333 votes.

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Meanwhile, Bawaslu said it had received a report from Lydia Fransisca regarding the alleged addition of votes for one of the other Gerindra Party candidates on behalf of Iwan Setiawan. The Bekasi Regency Bawaslu, together with the Bekasi Regency Gakkumdu Center, stated that the report of the alleged violation could not be followed up to the investigation stage because it did not meet the elements of an election crime under Article 551 of the Election Law.

In his petitum, the petitioner asks the Court to cancel KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 on the Determination of General Election Results for Members of DPR, DPD, Provincial DPRD, and Regency/City DPRD in the 2024 Election nationally, which was announced nationwide on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 22.:19 WIB along Dapil Bekasi 2 for the filling of candidates for Bekasi Regency DPRD members. The Petitioner also requested that the Court order the KPU to conduct a ballots recount (PSSU) in all of the said 317 polling stations in nine villages in West Cikarang Regency, former West Java Province, or determine the correct results of the vote acquisition according to the Petitioner for the filling of the Bekasi Regency DPRD membership of the Gerindra Party in Bekasi 2.

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

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