Azwar Anas' Wife Wins In Banyuwangi Regional Election

ILLUSTRATION - KPU / Irfan Meidianto-VOI Building

BANYUWANGI - The recapitulation of the election vote count results by the KPU of Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, stated that the candidate pair number 2 Ipuk Fiestiandani Azwar Anas-Sugirah won the Pilkada. Ipuk is the wife of the current Banyuwangi Regent, Azwar Anas.

The recapitulation results show that the Ipuk-Sugirah pair received 438,847 votes (52.4 percent) ahead of the candidate pair number 1 Yusuf Widyatmoko-Muhammad Riza Azizy with 398,113 votes (47.6 percent) or a difference of 40,734 votes (4.8 percent).

"The recapitulation of the 2020 Pilkada vote count results, at 00:05 WIB, we have finalized related to the recapitulation results, for candidate pair 1 got 398,133 votes, and candidate pair 2 got 438,847 votes, with a total number of 836,960 votes," said the Head of KPU Banyuwangi Regency. Dwi Anggraini was quoted by Antara, Thursday, December 17th.

Meanwhile, invalid ballots were 15,242 votes with a total of 852,202 votes and the total public participation was recorded at 61.6 percent.

Legal and Supervision Division at KPU Banyuwangi Regency Dian Mardiyanto said that regarding the witness team from candidate pair 1 who were not willing to sign the recapitulation of the election vote count results, this recapitulation was still valid in accordance with KPU regulations.

"As we all know, the witness team for candidate pair 1 has not been willing to sign since the recapitulation at the sub-district level, and in our records there are only three sub-districts where the candidate pair 1 witness team is willing to sign. the recapitulation remains valid, "said Dian.

Furthermore, the results of the 9 December 2020 Pilkada recapitulation will be announced after the publication of the Constitutional Case Register Book (BRPK).

"So after waiting for and / or publishing the Book of Register of Constitutional Cases (BRPK), five days later, a decision will be held," he said.

The recapitulation of the vote count for the 2020 Banyuwangi Regent and Deputy Regent election took place since Wednesday (16/12) and finished or recapitulated the final elections on Thursday morning.

The final voter list or DPT for the 2020 Banyuwangi Pilkada was recorded as 1,304,909 people spread across 3,745 polling stations (TPS) and 217 villages / wards.