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Case closed for Prabowo
The justices said the plaintiffs had failed to present valid evidence to back up their allegations of widespread voter fraud and had failed to elaborate clearly how the alleged vote-rigging attempts were related to the vote tally secured by each presidential candidate.
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Facepalm: Lawyers of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, Denny Indrayana (left) and Bambang Widjojanto, attend a hearing over the presidential election dispute at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta on Thursday. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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he Constitutional Court slammed shut on Thursday the last chance for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to overturn April’s election result, which saw victory handed to incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
After almost two weeks of examination, the bench of nine justices rejected in its entirety Prabowo’s legal challenge, saying that the arguments in his petition lacked evidence.
“The court rejects all of the plaintiffs’ claims,” Chief Justice Anwar Usman stated after the panel of nine justices had spent almost eight hours reading out their ruling.
Anwar added that the decision was final and that the decision had been unanimously signed by all justices on the panel.
The court’s decision upholds the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) final vote tally, which declared incumbent Jokowi and running mate Ma’ruf Amin the winners of the election.
The incumbent secured 55.5 percent of the vote while Prabowo and Sandiaga garnered 44.5 percent, according to the KPU.
The justices said the plaintiffs had failed to present valid evidence to back up their allegations of widespread voter fraud and had failed to elaborate clearly how the alleged vote-rigging attempts were related to the vote tally secured by each presidential candidate.
