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Top court set for electoral dispute hearings
The Constitutional Court had received more than 250 election result disputes by the registration deadline on March 23, including one from Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD's legal team seeking a revote and a disqualification of the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka candidate pair.
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Constitutional Court officials receive representatives of political parties and 2024 election candidates registering legal challenges against official election results at the court building in Jakarta on March 22, 2024. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
The stage is set for the final leg of 2024 elections after the Constitutional Court received hundreds of petitions challenging the official results by the last day of dispute registration on Saturday.
The court closed the registration for legal challenges to the results of the legislative elections at 10:19 p.m. on Saturday, 72 hours after the General Elections Commission (KPU) announced the official election results on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the registration for presidential election result disputes closed at midnight.
The legal team of presidential candidate pair Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD submitted its 151-page dossier disputing the election result to the Constitutional Court on Saturday afternoon.
In its petition, the team demanded a nationwide revote in the presidential election and the disqualification of the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka candidate pair from the race.
It argues that the candidacy of Gibran, the eldest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, was enabled only through a controversial ruling issued by the Constitutional Court, presided over by the President’s brother-in-law Anwar Usman. The court’s ethics council found Anwar guilty of serious ethical violations in having influenced other justices in the ruling.
“We have seen that [the election result] originated from nepotism, which resulted from a coordinated abuse of power,” Ganjar-Mahfud legal team head Todung Mulya Lubis told the press on Saturday.
“We’re willing to lose if the election was fair, […] but it was not,” he continued.
