The ruling hearing for case No. 209/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 East Seram regent election results dispute, Wednesday (2/5/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.
JAKARTA, MKRI - The Constitutional Court (MK) decided not to accept the petition of Candidate Pair Number 2 Rohani Vanath-Madja Rumatiga in the dispute over the 2024 East Seram regent election results. This was conveyed by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Suhartoyo, in the ruling hearing of case number 209/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.
“The Petitioners’ petition is inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo.
Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat conveyed the Court's consideration, the petition did not elaborate and explain how many votes were correct according to the Petitioners and the Relevant Party, candidate pair number 1. The petition only contained a table of the vote acquisition of each candidate pair based on the certification of the results of the vote count by the East Seram Regency KPU.
The Petitioners also only argued that the Relevant Party obtained 21,993 votes by fraudulent means and violated the principles of democracy. In this case, the Court cannot know where the difference in vote acquisition between the Petitioners and the Relevant Party is based on according to the Petitioners.
“Therefore, with regard to the posita, the Court cannot understand how many votes each candidate actually received and the valid votes argued by the Petitioners,” Justice Arief argue.
Justice Arif continued with regard to petitum numbers 2 and 3 in the petition, the Petitioners requested that the Court cancel the East Seram Regency KPU Decree No. 1556 of 2024 concerning the certification of the 2024 East Seram regent election results dated December 8, 2024. However, in petitum number 3, the Petitioners requested that the Court order the East Seram Regency KPU to conduct re-voting in 15 polling stations, without using the word “throughout”.
“Therefore, according to the Court, the petitum requested by the Petitioners is contradictory, so it is impossible to be implemented if the petition is granted. The formulation of the petition is not in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 paragraph (3) letter b numbers 4 and 5 of PMK 3/2024. Therefore, there is no doubt for the Court to declare the petition unclear,” Justice Arief explained.
Candidate Pair Number 2 argued that the East Seram Regency KPU failed to implement the recommendation to conduct a re-vote (PSU) at Polling Station (TPS) 2 in Kilkoda Village and TPS 1 in Lahema Village. This was despite the fact that the PSU had been recommended by the sub-district supervisory committee (Panwas) in both villages.
Author : Nawir Arsyad Akbar
Editor : Tiara Agustina
Translator : Dinita Aktivia/FS (RA)
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