The ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute was held by nine constitutional justices at the plenary courtroom, Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA, (MKRI) - The Constitutional Court (MK) dismissed a petition for the 2024 DPD (the Regional Representatives Council) election results dispute of Riau Province filed by Alpasirin. The ruling hearing for Decree No. 07-04/PHPU.DPD-XXII/2024 was held on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at the plenary courtroom.

“[The Court] rules to declare the Petitioner’s petition inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

In the legal considerations delivered by Constitutional Justice M. Guntur Hamzah, the Court stated that the Petitioner was concerned about the existence of forged signatures signed on behalf of the Petitioner's witnesses in C-results of Pelalawan Regency and Pekanbaru City, but the Petitioner explained that it had never sent or asked anyone to be a witness at the Pelalawan Regency and Pekanbaru City polling stations (TPS).

“Therefore, there is no doubt for the Court to declare that the Respondent's exception is grounded in law. Thus, according to the Court, the Petition is obscure,” said Constitutional Justice Guntur.

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Previously, the Petitioner mentioned the reason for filing this petition was because of the many forged signatures signed on behalf of the Petitioner's witnesses on the C-results consisting of 2 (two) regencies/cities, namely Pelalawan Regency and Pekanbaru City in Riau Province. According to the Petitioner, there were 2 (two) regencies/cities TPS suspected of having fake C-results, including Pelalawan Regency consisting of 9 (nine) subdistricts and 83 TPS.(*)

Author: Utami Argawati
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari P.

Translator: Intana Selvira Fauzi /Fuad Subhan

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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