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KPU delays announcing legislative seats as court receives fresh disputes
As the regional head elections draw near, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has not yet been able to convert votes into legislative seats after the Constitutional Court received fresh petitions on legislative election disputes.
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General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Mochammad Afifuddin (center) sits with commissioners Betty Epsilon Idroos (left) and Idham Holik (right) on July 28, 2024, during a meeting on vote tabulation for the 2024 election, at the commission building in Jakarta. (Antara/Aditya Pradana Putra)
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has not yet been able to convert votes from legislative elections into seats in legislatures that are required for candidate nomination in the coming regional election in November, after the Constitutional Court received fresh petitions on election disputes.
The KPU was supposed to announce on Wednesday how votes from February’s legislative elections will translate into seats in the regional legislatures. The shares of seats are necessary for the KPU to decide whether a political party is eligible to nominate a candidate for the upcoming regional elections alone or whether it must forge an alliance with other parties.
But the KPU was forced to postpone converting the votes into seats for an indefinite period after several political parties filed petitions with the Constitutional Court challenging the vote shares the political parties won following subsequent revotes in certain regions, which were certified and announced by the KPU on July 28.
The election agency also delayed the announcement of how many seats the political parties secured in the House of Representatives.
The KPU said the NasDem Party and the Democratic Party respectively filed new petitions challenging the results of the Jakarta Legislative Council election and for House seats in an electoral district in Banten on the same day that the agency was supposed to announce the seats.
“We have communicated [our wish] to the Constitutional Court to inform us of any new updates of election disputes so that we can finalize these legislative seats,” KPU commissioner Idham Holik told the press on Wednesday, apologizing for the delay on behalf of the poll body.
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