Court Rejects PAN’s Petition for Minahasa 5

The Respondent’s legal counsel Ummi Kultsum at a ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of North Sulawesi Province on Friday (6/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) handed down a ruling for the 2024 DPR-DPRD (House of Representatives-Regional Legislative Council) election results dispute petition, which petitioned by PAN (National Mandate Party) for the Minahasa Regency DPRD election in Electoral District of Minahasa 5, North Sulawesi Province. The ruling hearing for case No. 57-01-12-25/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held on Friday, June 7, 2024 in the plenary courtroom.

In its verdict, the Court rejected PAN’s petition in its entirety. “[The Court] relating to exceptions: to reject the exceptions by the Respondent and Relevant Party; relating to the subject matter: to reject the Petitioner’s petition in its entirety,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

In its legal considerations, the Court highlighted the Petitioner’s argument regarding the additional votes of the Democratic Party at TPS (polling station) 02 of East Ranotongkor Village, East Tombariri Subdistrict. The fact showed that C Result and C Copy Result Forms were in line with D Result Form of Sub-district. The Democratic Party’s vote acquisition was 102 votes. Then the total valid and invalid votes were 170 votes. This proves that it is in line with the Bawaslu’s (Elections Supervisory Body) testimony and the evidence submitted.

Then the legal consideration of the Petitioner's argument regarding the additional votes for the Relevant Party PDI-P (Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle) in 6 TPS. After examining the C Result Form, the Court found that the votes received by the Relevant Party at all TPS were in line with those recorded on the D Result Form of the Sub-district and also in line with the Bawaslu's testimony stating that the votes received by PDI-P were the same as those contained in the C Result and C Result Copy Forms.

In the Petitioner's argument at TPS 01 Popok Village, Tombariri Subdistrict, there was a difference in the total votes in the C Result form, where the valid ballots amounted to 186 votes, but the valid votes of all political parties amounted to 208 votes. After examining, the Court found that the total valid votes were 186 votes and invalid votes were 14 votes, making a total of 200 votes. This is in line with Bawaslu's testimony.

Based on these three explanations, it is concluded that the Petitioner's arguments have no legal basis. Therefore, the Court rejected the Petitioner's petition in its entirety.

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Court Rejects PAN’s Petition for Minahasa 5