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he Election Organizers Ethics Council (DKPP) will summon the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) after Idul Fitri in response to reports filed by the legal team of Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto.

Prabowo'€™s legal team filed four reports with the DKPP accusing the KPU and Bawaslu of breaching ethical codes by allowing Prabowo'€™s rival, president-elect Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo, to run in the 2014 presidential election without proper permission, as well as deliberately attempting to rig some of the votes in Jakarta.

DKPP chairman Jimly Asshiddique said on Wednesday that the council would hold a meeting as soon as possible to determine the date of the first court hearing.

'€œHopefully we can hold the first hearing soon. If possible, before the Constitutional Court makes a decision, we will already be prepared [for the court hearing],'€ he told reporters at his house in South Jakarta.

According to Jimly, the four reports contained similar content and were related to each other, which is why it is likely that the four reports will be combined into one joint trial.

In the reports, Prabowo'€™s legal team accused the KPU and the Bawaslu of misconduct for granting Jokowi candidacy although he did not have permission from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono when he registered at the KPU.

'€œHe did not bring a letter of support from his political party when he met with the President. And the meeting was also an informal one,'€ he said. '€œSo it is safe to assume that there was no permission letter [when Jokowi registered his candidacy] and the letter was only submitted after his candidacy was declared.'€

The team also accused the Elections Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) in Jakarta of deliberately trying to rig the votes by burning 265 uncounted ballot boxes in Cilincing, North Jakarta.

The KPU and the Bawaslu had said that they had never received such reports.

In spite of Prabowo'€™s legal team trying to drag the KPU and the Bawaslu into the DKPP, Jimly said that any decision made by the council would not alter the official election result announced by the KPU, which showed that Jokowi and his running mate Jusuf Kalla had nabbed the most votes with 53.15 percent, while the Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa ticket only garnered 46.85 percent of the 132.9 million votes cast during the July 9 election.

'€œWhat'€™s clear is that [the reports] won'€™t affect the presidential election result. But if there are ethical violations, then we have to hold them [the KPU and the Bawaslu] responsible,'€ he said.

Jimly also said that the DKPP'€™s decisions would not affect legal proceedings at the court, which was currently preparing for the first court hearing centering on the election dispute filed by Prabowo'€™s camp, scheduled to be held on Aug. 6.

'€œIt won'€™t affect the court because the filed cases are different. We are talking about the behavior [of the KPU and the Bawaslu],'€ he said. '€œI hope that these two cases, [the one in the DKPP and the other one at the court], will put an end to any differing opinions so that the presidential election result is accepted with open arms.'€

The documents prepared by Prabowo'€™s camp for the court have been heavily criticized for being mired with errors, such as blank columns and data merely copy and pasted from one column to another.

Prabowo legal team member Habiburokhman said that the team were continuously trying to fix the errors, even during the Idul Fitri holidays.

'€œWe submitted the first stage of corrections [to the court] last Sunday,'€ he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday. '€œMost of the errors have been fixed.'€