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he General Elections Commission (KPU) finished counting votes from the recent presidential election Thursday, two days ahead of schedule, officially giving incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) a second term, with 60.80 percent of the total vote.

The Megawati Soekarnoputri and Prabowo Subianto team received 26.79 percent of the votes with the Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto team receiving 12.41 percent.

Kalla, who is also the current vice president, made it official Thursday that he will challenge the results of the count, though it remains unclear whether he will join forces with Megawati and Prabowo to do so.

"*The Kalla-Wiranto team* will continue to challenge the legitimacy of the electoral roll to with the Constitutional Court. This is not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing, but a matter of democractic education," Kalla said to Antara on Thursday.

The Kalla-Wiranto campaign team has been toying with the idea of challenging the results of the election, saying that the candidates were waiting for the General Election Commission's official tally, even though most pollsters have named SBY the likely winner.

The Megawati-Prabowo campaign team has their own plans to challenge the results.

Legal counsel to the Megawati-Prabowo campaign team, Arteria Dahlan, said that based on the vote count conducted by her team in the field, Yudhoyono received less than 50 percent of the total vote.

He said most of Yudhoyono's votes came from polling stations that used flawed electoral rolls.

"We will register the challenge on the difference in votes to the Constitutional Court and the Court must agree to a reelection," he Wednesday, as quoted by Kompas.com.

The teams have from July 25-27 to file their complains. The Constitutional Court would then have until Aug. 11 to settle their cases.

Meanwhile, the scene during vote counting Thursday was more chaotic than on Wednesday, as witnesses from the Kalla-Wiranto team walked out of KPU headquarters, in objection to the election process.