Gibran Challenges Ganjar Claim in Court
FOKUS NEWS - In a surprising turn of events, Vice Presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka responded to a lawsuit filed by opposing candidates Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud Md at the Constitutional Court. The lawsuit claims that the Prabowo-Gibran ticket received zero votes.
Initially, Gibran expressed confusion over the issue. “What does that mean? I don’t understand,” he stated at Solo City Hall, as reported by detikJateng on Wednesday (27/3/2024).
The lawsuit, registered under case number 2/PHPU.PRES-XXII/2024, outlines discrepancies in the vote count by the Election Commission (KPU). It shows Prabowo-Gibran’s votes as zero. Gibran jokingly suggested that Ganjar was making a joke with the lawsuit. “Maybe Mr. Ganjar is joking. Thank you,” he remarked briefly.
Previously, as detailed by detikNews, Ganjar-Mahfud presented a dispute in vote counts between the KPU’s version and their own. “The respondent has made a mistake in calculating the votes of each presidential and vice-presidential pair. There is a discrepancy between the respondent’s count and the petitioner’s count,” the Ganjar-Mahfud petition states.
Three tables were shown to highlight the discrepancies in the 2024 Presidential Election votes according to the KPU and the petitioners. In the first table, Ganjar-Mahfud displayed a ‘Comparison of Vote Counts According to Respondent and Petitioner’. It contained five columns for number, province, vote count according to the respondent (KPU), vote count according to the petitioner (Ganjar-Mahfud), and the last column showing the discrepancy.
No discrepancies were found between the KPU and Ganjar-Mahfud vote counts. However, in the third table, titled ‘Comparison of Vote Counts for Candidate Pair Number 2 According to Respondent and Petitioner’, the Ganjar-Mahfud party wrote zero for all cells in the column for Candidate Pair Number 2 according to the Petitioner, leading to discrepancies in every province according to the KPU.
The petition claims that the calculation errors resulting in the discrepancies occurred due to: (i) significant systematic and massive violations; and (ii) violations of general election procedures, compromising the integrity of the 2024 Presidential Election and violating the principles of direct, general, free, secret, honest, and fair elections as regulated and guaranteed by Article 22E paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.