Constitutional Court to begin hearing election cases

Irawaty Wardany ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 05/06/2009 3:06 PM  |  Election 2009

The Constitutional Court announced that it will open registration for legal suits related to the results of the General Election Commission's (KPU) national voting count as soon as it finishes its count.

The KPU is scheduled to do so on Saturday.

"The second the KPU concludes the counting, political parties that object to the results can directly file their suits to this court," the Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud MD told a press conference here on Wednesday.

He said the registration would be opened for three days straight from KPU closing time.

"We will put a special clock that runs backward the second we open the registration," he said.

He acknowledged that if a legislative candidate wants to file a suit against the results of the vote count, he or she should do it through his or her political party's central organization.

"We will only process a suit that is signed by either the party's chairman or secretary general," he said.

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