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Losing camps ready to contest election results at court
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The Constitutional Court building in Jakarta is pictured on Oct. 2, 2023. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
Claiming to have found evidence that last month’s election was rigged, the rival camps of presumptive president-elect Prabowo Subianto are completing preparations to challenge the results at the Constitutional Court, which will open for disputes next week.
The court will allow presidential candidates to file election disputes once the General Elections Commission (KPU) announces the official winners by Wednesday next week.
Unofficial results show that Prabowo, who ran with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka, won 58 percent of the vote, far ahead of rivals Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo.
But the camps of Anies and Ganjar have refused to concede defeat in an election they claim was marred with the misuse of state resources, voter intimidation and inflated vote numbers to the benefit of the Gerindra Party patron.
Ganjar’s camp said that it was ready to bring evidence of election fraud to the Constitutional Court.
“We will not focus on [irregularities] in the number of votes. Rather, we will focus on the systematic, massive and structured [election fraud] because this is already an extraordinary crime,” Henry Yosodiningrat of the Ganjar-Mahfud MD legal team said in a statement on Monday.
“We have evidence of village heads being forced by police [to vote for certain candidates],” Henry said, adding that he would present an unnamed regional police head as a witness.
