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The legal team of the other losing candidate, Anies Baswedan, also filed a case, calling on Thursday for the court to order an election re-run that excludes Gibran, alleging his last-minute inclusion unfairly swayed the vote.
Claiming to have found evidence that last month’s election was rigged, the rival camps of presumptive president-elect Prabowo Subianto are completing preparations to challenge the results at the Constitutional Court, which will open for disputes next week.
Ganjar's campaign team has hit back at Indonesia Police Watch's report to the KPK alleging the former Central Java governor and an ex-Bank Jateng director of bribery, suggesting it was politically motivated due to the IPW chair's ties to the PSI, which is led by Jokowi's youngest son Kaesang.
Presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo has suggested that his backers, including his own Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the largest party in the legislature, launch a House of Representatives inquiry into what he has described as “large-scale election fraud”.
The call comes despite comments by independent observers that there were no signs of systematic fraud in the world's biggest single-day election, apart from matters such as outdated electoral rolls or polling delays.
For those who expected the presidential poll to be decided in two rounds, the result, based on the quick count method conducted by a number of pollsters, was a continuation of a trend prevailing since 2009 that presidential elections finish after a single round.
