The Constitutional Court’s ethics council is poised to deliver a verdict that could cost Chief Justice Anwar Usman his job if he is found guilty of making last-minute changes to election candidacy requirements that cleared the way for his nephew by marriage to run for vice president.

Ethics council chief Jimly Ashiddiqie said on Friday that the panel had completed its probe, seen enough evidence to find Anwar guilty of an ethics breach and would deliver the verdict on Tuesday, two weeks after the first hearing.

“This is not a difficult case to prove,” Jimly added. “We are now formulating the verdict, and that takes time, given that each complaint has to be answered one at a time,” said Jimly, who was also the first chief justice of the Constitutional Court, from 2003 to 2008.

The council has been investigating 21 complaints against all nine justices, with the majority reporting Anwar for alleged ethics breaches on the grounds that he should have recused himself from hearing all the candidacy petitions to avoid conflicts of interest.

Anwar had recused himself from ruling on three ultimately unsuccessful petitions seeking to alter the 40-year age minimum for presidential and vice presidential candidates, but he then participated in a subsequent petition, on which a number of justices switched sides.

Anwar's vote decided the latest ruling 5 to 4 in favor of adding an exception to the age restriction for prospective candidates who had served as elected regional leaders, overriding the previous rulings. This effectively removed the legal barrier stopping Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Anwar's 36-year-old nephew and President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s eldest son, from running for vice president next year.

All the rulings were read out on Oct. 16, about a week before Gibran registered his candidacy.

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