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View all search resultsPrabowo camp washes hands of planned May 22 protests
Most political parties that endorse Prabowo Subianto have said they won't be participating in the rallies.
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A pedestrian passes by flower boards sent by individuals or groups to show appreciation for the work of the General Elections Commission (KPU) at the KPU office in Central Jakarta on Sunday. The commission has begun counting the votes and is expected to announce the results to the public on May 22. (The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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s government officials and civil society organizations continue to discourage the public from attending a rally in front of the General Elections Commission's (KPU) headquarters following the planned announcement of the 2019 election results on Wednesday, political parties in presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto’s coalition have distanced themselves from the event.
As of Monday, with over 90 percent of the vote tallies in, the KPU’s official vote-count information system website puts the Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin ticket with 55.5 percent of the vote compared to Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno’s 44.5 percent.
Prabowo has claimed that his team found evidence of massive, structured and systematic cheating and said he would reject a “fraudulent” election result. Gerindra Party deputy chairman Fadli Zon has also said the Prabowo camp would not file a petition with the Constitutional Court, leaving them with few other legal options.
Shortly before the election, Prabowo campaign adviser and National Mandate Party (PAN) patron Amien Rais said he would use “people power” if he found systematic election fraud.
While a number of Prabowo-Sandiaga supporters, mostly associated with the conservative Muslim 212 Movement, have announced that they would stage a mass protest in front of the KPU’s headquarters on Wednesday, coalition political parties have been more circumspect.
The Democratic Party, which has been a reluctant coalition member since the candidates were announced last August, guaranteed it would not take part in the demonstrations.
“I guarantee that the Democratic Party will not participate in [the protests],” Democrat secretary-general Hinca Panjaitan said on Monday as quoted by Antara, adding, however, that the party would remain part of Prabowo’s coalition until the official results were announced.
