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Constitutional Court ready to rule on Prabowo's petition
Should Prabowo fail in the lawsuit, it would be the second time that the former general has lost a presidential dispute at the Constitutional Court.
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Mountains of evidence: Members of presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto–Sandiaga Uno‘s national campaign team organize documents it will use as evidence during hearing sessions of its legal lawsuit against the presidential election result at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta on Wednesday. The Prabowo–Sandi legal team withdrew 94 boxes of evidence it had previously submitted for the lawsuit.
(The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
T
he courtroom phase of the legal battle surrounding the presidential election result has ended and whether or not losing candidate Prabowo Subianto can overturn incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s reelection victory now awaits the Constitutional Court judges’ ruling.
Despite the witnesses and experts called by Prabowo’s legal team to testify in the hearings, however, analysts believe that the chances of success for the challenge are slim as the team appeared to have been unable to substantiate the claims of widespread fraud in April’s election.
The nine justices of the court convened in a meeting on Monday to start deliberating the court’s final ruling regarding the petition, which followed a series of hearings that saw the lawyers of the General Elections Commission (KPU) as well as of Jokowi’s legal team rebutting all allegations of fraud.
“The justices will deliver their respective views and opinions about the case [during the meeting] and they will discuss all evidence and testimony before reaching a decision,” Constitutional Court spokesperson Fajar Laksono said on Monday at the court in Central Jakarta.
In the meeting, the nine-justice bench decided to announce its ruling on Thursday, a day earlier than the initial plan of Friday, which was also the deadline for the delivery of the ruling.
When asked about the reasoning, Fajar said the justices simply felt that they “would be ready to read out the ruling” on Thursday, although the deliberation meetings were expected to continue until Wednesday.
The Prabowo camp, which has consistently refused to accept defeat since the April 17 election, alleged the KPU committed “structured, systematic and massive” fraud in Jokowi’s favor during the campaign and election process.
