Akhyar Is Absent When Suing Bobby Nasution In The Constitutional Court Session

Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi and Bobby Nasution-Aulia Rachman (Raga Granada / VOI)

JAKARTA - The pair of candidates for Medan deputy mayor, Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi sued the results of the Medan Regional Election to the Constitutional Court (MK). Because it is suspected there was a vote mark-up.

"Yes, it was just registered with the Constitutional Court and received at 19.55 WIB", said Deputy Chairman of the Akhyar-Salman (AMAN) Winning Team, Gelmok Samosir, Friday, December 18.

In the dispute over general election results (PHPU), Akhyar Nasution's team included pieces of evidence. There are at least 8 points highlighted in the evidence presented.

"There are allegations of vote mark-ups and voters who do not match the local ID cards. That will be tested with the evidence we have", said Gemlok.

Gemlok said that the submission of a lawsuit against the results of the Medan regional election to the Constitutional Court was not based on the recapitulation results obtained by the Medan General Election Commissions (KPU). This is because the AMAN team assessed that many matters in the Medan Pilkada were outside the proper norms.

"We ask the plenary recapitulation of the Medan KPU to be canceled and to re-vote in 15 districts", he said.

From the KPU recapitulation results, Akhyar-Salman lost in the Medan Regional Head Election to candidate Bobby Nasution-Aulia Rachman. The loss was with a ratio of 393,327 votes for Bobby-Aulia and the candidate pair Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi 342,580 votes.

Until finally, the lawsuit against the general election results (PHPU) began to be heard, on January 27. Initial hearing with the agenda of hearing the petitioners' petition.

"The trial is open and declared to the public", said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Anwar Usman.

Akhyar Nasution's team's trial took place simultaneously with 34 other lawsuits. This is because the entire trial for a dispute over general election results (PHPU) is divided into three panels.

Panel 1 was chaired by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and accompanied by Wahiduddin Adams and Enny Nurbaningsih to examine cases of disputes in the Bengkulu, South Bengkulu, Kaur, Central Kalimantan, East Waringin City, Sekadau, Kotabaru, Konawe Kepulauan, Konawe Selatan, Muna and Wakatobi.

Constitutional Justices Aswanto, Suhartoyo, and Daniel Yusmic Pancastaki Foekh in Panel 2 examined disputes over the results of the Medan, Labuhan Batu, South Labuhan Batu, Asahan, Mandailing Natal, Tanjung Balai, Karo, South Nias, Nias and Samosir regional elections.

Then Panel 3 with Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, Saldi Isra and Manahan MP Sitompul examined the dispute over the results of the Gorontalo Regional Election, Bone Bolango, Pohuwato, Teluk Wondama, Teluk Bintuni, South Sorong, Waropen, Central Lombok, Sumbawa, and Bima.

A total of 132 applications for election results disputes regions that have been registered by the Constitutional Court.

Meanwhile, the time that the Constitutional Court has for examining and deciding cases is 45 days from the time the application for disputes over the results of regional head elections is registered.

However, in this inaugural session, the pair of candidates for mayor and deputy mayor of Medan Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi were not present.

Constitutional Justice Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh in the trial said that even though the plaintiff was not present at the trial, the dispute over general election results (PHPU) would continue.

"Until now, the information from the secretariat, applicant Number 41 has not been present, until this trial. However, we will continue", said Daniel Yusmic.

Confirmed separately, the Head of Public Relations and Domestic Cooperation of the Constitutional Court, Fajar Laksono Soeroso, said that whether the petition was canceled was the authority of the panel of judges of the Constitutional Court in making decisions later.

"The fact of absence is one of the things that will be considered by the panel of judges whether or not to continue the case in question. In principle, all cases must have a decision/decision in the end", he said.

In their petition, the Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi pair argued that the votes acquired by the Bobby Afif Nasution-Aulia Rachman pair should be 340,327 votes, not 393,327 votes.

According to the petitioner, the difference in the votes acquired by the Bobby Afif Nasution-Aulia Rachman pair is suspected to be from the addition of 53,000 votes in 1,060 polling stations spread across 15 districts, namely Medan, Medang Sunggal, Medan Helvetia, Medan Denai, West Medan, Medan Deli, Medan Tuntung, Medan Belawan , Medan Labuhan, Medan Polonia, Medan Baru, Medan Perjuangan, Medan Petisah, East Medan, and Medan Selayang.

The pair Bobby Afif Nasution-Aulia Rachman was also said to have violated the use of government structures by state officials at the central and regional levels.