KPU: legitimacy of presidential election not reduced by candidate rejections

General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary said Saturday that rejections over KPU's official results of presidential election by one or two pairs of presidential candidates would not reduce the legitimacy of the election itself. 

"That will not reduce the legitimacy of the results," Hafiz Anshary said after announcing the results that gave incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his running mate Boediono a resounding victory by 60.8 percent of valid votes.

The pair of Megawati Soekarnoputri and Prabowo Subianto, who came second with 26.8 percent of valid votes, did not attend the announcement and sent their lawyer Gayus Lumbun to KPU. Gayus said that Megawati and Prabowo would contest the election results to the Constitutional Court.

Hafiz Anshary said KPU would send the results of the elections to Megawati and Prabowo as they were not present.

The pair of Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto, who came last with 12.4 percent, attended the announcement but they refused to sign the KPU document on election results. 

Burhanuddin Napitupulu of the Golkar party said that Kalla and Wiranto accepted the results but would file a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court over what they claimed as a problematic voters roll.