The Constitutional Court (MK) held the 2024 Legislative election result dispute (PHPU) hearing that presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih. Monday, May 13 2024. Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The General Elections Commission (KPU) reported that the Petitioner or their legal representative for Case No 206-02-05-11/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024, filed by Fenty Lindari Amir Fauzi, a candidate for the Provincial Legislative Council of DKI Jakarta from the National Democratic Party (NasDem), did not attend the Preliminary Hearing Examination without a valid reason. Therefore, the KPU requests the Court to declare the Petitioner's application as lapsed. This information was provided by the KPU as the Respondent in the hearing presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih, concerning the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU).

According to the KPU, the lack of seriousness of the Petitioner was further evidenced by the fact that, according to the court security officers, the Petitioner's legal representative had registered their attendance and left their ID at the Constitutional Court's registration counter. However, the Petitioner's legal representative then swapped back their registration tag, retrieved their ID, and subsequently left the Court building without attending the preliminary hearing.

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"Since there was no response when called, it is declared that the Petitioner is not serious," stated Arief Hidayat as the Presiding Justice of Panel 3.

In response to the explanations provided, the Respondent requests the Court to accept and grant all of the Respondent's exceptions in the preliminary matters, and in the main case, to reject all of the Petitioner's requests and to affirm the correctness of the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024.

Previously, the Petitioner, in their petition, alleged discrepancies in the vote count between the data from the Respondent (KPU) and the data presented by the Petitioner based on the C1 copies across the Jakarta 7 electoral district. According to the Petitioner, the correct vote count for the Petitioner should be 19,320 votes, differing from the 4,108 votes previously established by the Respondent. Meanwhile, Wibi Andrino, the NasDem legislative candidate number 5, should have received 9,002 votes, different from the 23,925 votes previously established by the Respondent.

In their Petition, the Petitioner requests the Court to grant their petition by nullifying the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 and establishing the correct vote counts according to the Petitioner.

Author : Adam Ilyas
Editor : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator : Gabrielle K.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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