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Prabowo camp to reject KPU final result
Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto claimed that he had won by 54 percent based on data from 54.9 percent of the polling stations.
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Illustration picture of incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) and his rival Prabowo Subianto. (Shutterstock/zombiu26)
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residential candidate Prabowo Subianto said on Tuesday that he would not accept the final result of the election by the General Election Commission (KPU), which is expected to show that incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo secured his reelection, claiming his own campaign team has its own data showing that he won the race.
As of Tuesday, the vote count tabulation on Situng, the KPU’s online data tabulation center, had gathered more than 80 percent of the data from 810,000 polling stations nationwide and showed that Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin led with 56 percent of the vote, while the Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno ticket garnered 44 percent.
Prabowo, who has made several victory claims since polling day, said that the vote count that his campaign had gathered showed otherwise. He claimed that he had won by 54 percent based on data from 54.9 percent of the polling stations.
He alleged that the KPU vote count contained “systematic and massive cheating” that had benefited the incumbent.
“We still hope that the KPU can be honest and fair. But I make it clear that I will reject a final result that is fraudulent,” Prabowo said during his speech.
Prabowo claimed victory hours after polls closed on April 17 and his campaign team has accused the KPU of rigging the election to favor Jokowi.
The campaign has also made a series of accusations to undermine the credibility of the electoral process, including claiming that the deaths of hundreds of poll administrators in the election were somehow connected to efforts to commit election fraud to disadvantage Prabowo. The campaign has demanded that autopsies be carried out on the dead officials, despite the fact that most of the deaths were caused by old age and poor health.
