Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman reading out a decision at a ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute in the plenary courtroom, Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) decided to dismiss a petition by the Great Movement Party (Gerindra) on the 2024 Bandar Lampung City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election in the electoral district of Bandar Lampung 3, the Metro City DPRD election in Metro 3, and the West Lampung Regency DPRD election in West Lampung 2. The constitutional justices declared case No. 215-01-02-08/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 not meeting formal requirements because the petition was vague. The ruling hearing was held on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 in the plenary courtroom.

“[The Court] adjudicated, relating to the exceptions: to grant the Respondent’s exception on the obscurity of the petition, to reject the exceptions by the Respondent and Relevant Party I (Prosperous Justice Party/PKS) for the rest and remainder; relating to the subject matter: to declare the Petitioner’s petition inadmissible,” stressed Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

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After the Court had examined the Petitioner’s petition, it found the fact that petitum No. 3 requested the Court to determine the votes of political parties along with the revote results. Such petitums were unusual and contradictory because, on one hand, the Court was asked to determine the votes of political parties while, on the other hand, it was asked to conduct a revote. Within the limits of reasoning, they were described cumulatively and could not be considered as a clear series of petitums, because if one petition was granted, it would conflict with the other, because the two had different legal consequences. As such, the petition became vague.

Previously, the Petitioner argued that there were different versions between the Petitioner and PKS for on the results of the Bandar Lampung City DPRD election in Bandar Lampung 3. It asserted that PKS’s votes should have been 16,440, but the Respondent determined 16,697 votes. Meanwhile, the Petitioner should have had 16,490 votes, but the Respondent determined 16,524 votes. It alleged that the difference in votes was caused by voters using C-notification forms (invitations to vote) belonging to other people, at TPS (polling stations) 1 and 7 of Bilabong Jaya Village, Langkapura Subdistrict, Bandar Lampung. In addition, it argued that there was money politics (vote buying), where monetary compensation was distributed to voters at TPS 01 and 07 of Bilabong Jaya Village.

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