Chief Justice Suhartoyo, Deputy Justice Saldi Isra, and Justice Enny Nurbaningsih (right to left) at a ruling hearing for the 2024 election results dispute in the plenary courtroom, Wednesday (5/22/2024). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) declared the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) election results dispute petition of South Papua Province petitioned by Dayana inadmissible on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. The ruling hearing for Decision No. 11-35/PHPU.DPD-XXII/2024 was presided by Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices. Dayana was a DPD candidate number 5 for the electoral district of South Papua 5.

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

In its legal considerations, delivered by Justice M. Guntur Hamzah, the Court asserted that the Petitioner’s petition did not meet the qualifications as referred to in Article 75 of the Constitutional Court Law and Article 10 paragraph (2) letter b points 4 and 5 of Constitutional Court Regulation No. 3 of 2023 because there was discrepancy between posita and petitum, where the Petitioner requested the annulment of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Decree No. 360 of 2024, without mentioning the word “as it pertains to” as intended for the electoral district being disputed.

Justice Guntur continued, the Petitioner’s petition also did not clearly describe the error in the vote count results determined and announced by the Respondent and the correct vote count results according to the Petitioner. Therefore, there was no doubt for the Court to declare the Petitioner’s petition obscure.

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Previously, the Petitioner argued that her vote acquisition as stated in the D-results forms at the district or subdistrict level was 27,184 votes. However, the vote count was different from that according to the KPU (General Elections Commission) as the Respondent, which was 2,664 votes. This shows that there was a dispute of around 24,520 votes. In her petition, the Petitioner asked the Court to cancel the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 and declare that the vote acquisition according to the Respondent incorrect because it did not match the Petitioner’s.

Author              : Utami Argawati
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Fauzan Febriyan
Translator         : Jessica Rivena Meilania, 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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