The Constitutional Court held a ruling hearing for the 2024 Legislative election results dispute of Maluku Province in the Central Maluku 3 on Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) did not find any grounds in the petition that challenge the discrepancy in the vote margins of Candidate for the Regional Representative Council (DPRD) of Central Maluku Regency, electoral district Central Maluku 3, Number 1, Nurmiati La Abusaleh from the National Mandate Party (PAN) with other candidates within the same party. Hence, the Petitioner's request is deemed obscure.

The statement was delivered by Constitutional Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra during the Ruling Hearing of Decision No. 236-02-12-31/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 filed by Nurmiati La Abusaleh. The Court provided several legal considerations on the petition of the 2024 Election Dispute (PHPU) for Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and Regional House of Representatives (DPRD).

Petitions filed by individual candidates may lead to disputes among candidates within the same political party. Thus, the substance of the petition must outline the differences in vote margins among candidates within that political party. However, in this petition, the Petitioner did not explain the arguments regarding the differences in their vote acquisition compared to other candidates. Despite presenting data, it does not depict any disputes within PAN.

Deputy Chief Justice Saldi further elaborated that, contrary to expectations, the Petitioner challenges about the vote count recapitulation at 12 Polling Stations (TPS) across various villages in Telutih Subdistrict and 5 TPS in Yaputih Village, Tehoru Subdistrict. These reasons align more with the characteristics of inter-party petitions rather than individual petitions within a political party.

“[The Court] adjudicated, the Petitioner’s petition is inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo while reading the verdict of this case.

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During the Preliminary Hearing, the Petitioner presented a comparison of the vote acquisition for the Petitioner's candidacy for membership in DPRD of Central Maluku Regency, electoral district Central Maluku 3. It was asserted that the Respondent (General Election Commission (KPU)) had stipulated the Petitioner to have acquired 2,293 votes, while the Party of Functional Groups (Golkar) acquired 2,677 votes, and the Democratic Party acquired 2,871 votes. This data was detailed in the District Model D.Results for the Banda Subdistrict, Tehoru Subdistrict, and Telutih Subdistrict. Thus, based on this breakdown, the Petitioner's vote margin with Golkar and the Democratic Party was 384 votes and 578 votes, respectively. Based on these arguments, the Petitioner requested the Court to order the Respondent to conduct a recount of votes at 12 TPS in 6 villages, namely TPS 1, TPS 2, TPS 3, TPS 4, TPS 5, TPS 6 in Wolu Village; TPS 4 in Laimu Village; TPS 1 in Hunisi Village; TPS 1 in Yamalatu Village; TPS 2 in Laha Kaba Village; TPS 1 and TPS 2 in Ulalahan Village; and 5 TPS in Yaputih Village, Tehoru Subdistrict.

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Author: Sri Pujianti.

Editor: Nur R.

Translator: Naomi Andrea Zebua/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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