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PPP disappointed with Constitutional Court over legislative election disputes
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A panel of three Constitutional Court justices presides on May 23, 2024, over a legislative election dispute hearing at the court building in Jakarta. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
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nited Development Party (PPP) acting chair Muhamad Mardiono has expressed his disappointment with the Constitutional Court for dismissing all the party’s petitions challenging February’s legislative election results.
The PPP has no chance of retaining its seats in the House of Representatives after the court dismissed all of its 18 petitions for the House race because of insufficient evidence.
"I am disappointed that the Constitutional Court did not carry out a comprehensive examination that was supposed to offer a sense of justice to people who have voted for PPP [legislative candidates],” Mardiono told a press conference on Wednesday, as quoted by Kompas.
The PPP suffered a historic defeat in this year’s election, garnering only 5.8 million votes, or 3.9 percent of the national vote in the House race, according to the final vote tabulation by the General Elections Commission (KPU) in March. The vote was just short of the 4 percent needed to qualify for seats in the national legislature.
The party currently controls the smallest share of seats, with only 19.
But Mardiono insisted on Wednesday that the PPP should have gained more than 6.3 million votes and therefore should be entitled to 12 House seats when new lawmakers are sworn in later this year.
The oldest Muslim-based party used the alleged 200,000 votes it lost as the basis for its petitions to the court, in a bid to overturn its loss and retain its House seats
