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Prabowo camp threatens to withdraw vote tally witnesses
Prabowo camp threatens to withdraw witnesses from official vote counting process after the candidate said he would reject the official presidential election results from the KPU.
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Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (center) and vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno (right) gesture as they declare victory in the country's general election, during a press conference in Jakarta on April 18. (AFP/Izaak)
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ommissioner of the General Elections Commission, Evi Novida Ginting, said the official vote counting process would still be legitimate, although the Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno campaign team said that it would pull out their witnesses from the central KPU office and in regencies and cities.
“With or without witnesses, the tabulation plenary [meetings] are still running and they are still valid as long as the Elections Supervisory Agency [Bawaslu] oversees the process,” Evi said on Wednesday.
Evi said official tabulation plenaries in regencies and cities were an open forum to verify and officiate vote count results from polling stations, and therefore the KPU invited witnesses from candidates and political parties. However, it would not be a problem if they did not come.
“[The KPU] is responsible for completing and officiating the final results," she said.
As of the last plenary meeting on Tuesday night, Evi said, all witnesses of the candidate pairs and political parties were still present.
"As of last night there were still witnesses from the Prabowo-Sandiaga ticket at the plenary meeting,” Evi said.
Evi said the Prabowo-Sandiaga witnesses had never brought their own tabulation data to the plenary meetings.
