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Regulation sought on election funding reports
Yogyakarta provincial election body (KPUD) has urged the Home Ministry to issue a regulation on the management of regional-election funding stipulating that reports be made only after the entire election process has been completed
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Yogyakarta provincial election body (KPUD) has urged the Home Ministry to issue a regulation on the management of regional-election funding stipulating that reports be made only after the entire election process has been completed.
Yogyakarta KPUD commissioner Farid Bambang Siswantoro said the regional elections to be conducted simultaneously in December 2015, would span two different budget years, especially if there were disputes.
He said the Central Election Commission (KPU) had scheduled the regional elections for some 200 regions across the country for Dec. 2 or Dec. 9. In Yogyakarta, three regencies, Bantul, Gunungkidul and Sleman, will hold elections.
'The election process has to be started six months ahead of the election, i.e. in May,' he said.
Farid said the election process might not be completed by Dec. 31 as the law on regional elections stipulated that there would be only single-round elections. This, he said, led to great potential for disputes to occur.
'Candidates losing by a slim margin will most likely file a dispute with the Supreme Court, so the process will continue into the 2016 budget year,' he said.
