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Prabowo stands 'slim chance' of winning petition
“From what I saw, the petition seems very weak and most of the evidence is in the form of links to articles on news websites,” Andalas University constitutional law expert Feri Amsari told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
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Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
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residential candidate Prabowo Subianto is seeking to disqualify his rival, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, with a legal petition at the Constitutional Court, but analysts say his legal team is facing an uphill battle to convince the bench to do exactly that.
In submitting the petition, Prabowo’s team also filed 51 pieces of evidence that they said proved the Jokowi camp committed “systemic, structured and massive” fraud resulting in a Prabowo loss.
“The 51 pieces of evidence consist of some documents and testimonies. There are fact witnesses and expert witnesses,” Prabowo team lawyer Bambang Widjojanto, a former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner, said on Friday night.
However, some experts said they doubt the petition would be successful, expressing skepticism that the evidence would be convincing enough to overturn Jokowi’s winning margin of nearly 17 million votes.
“From what I saw, the petition seems very weak and most of the evidence is in the form of links to articles on news websites,” Andalas University constitutional law expert Feri Amsari told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
Election participants can only challenge election results at the Constitutional Court, as opposed to election process violations, which are adjudicated by the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu).
Feri said there were two ways the Prabowo camp could convince the court to overturn the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) decision: by presenting proof that the KPU’s vote tally documents, the C1 forms, have wrongly given at least 8.5 million votes to Jokowi instead of Prabowo or by demonstrating that the Jokowi camp committed fraud that was massive and widespread enough to affect the election results.
