Lawsuit Of The Incumbent Of The Kepri Isdianto Regarding Competitor Promises For Motorbike Head Of RT Is Deemed Unclear

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BATAM - The Riau Islands General Election Commission (KPU) assessed the candidate pair number one for governor Isdianto-Suryani has no legal standing in the request for a dispute over the Riau Islands Pilkada at the Constitutional Court (MK).

"The petitioner does not have 'legal standing'," said the attorney for KPU Kepri, Taufik Hidayat in the continued trial of the Riau Islands Pilkada dispute at the Constitutional Court, Thursday, February 4.

According to him, the dispute request did not meet the 2 percent difference in votes.

Based on the data, the difference in votes between the applicant and the candidate with the most votes was 28,393 votes or 3.68 percent, while the threshold for submitting an application to the Constitutional Court was 15,441 votes or 2 percent.

Taufik said that the Constitutional Court was not authorized to try the case, because the violations were alleged to be structured, systematic and massive as well as election crimes.

"That is the authority of Bawaslu and Gakkumdu," he said.

In addition, he considered that many petitioners submitted by the applicants were unclear because there was no mention of the location of the violation.

"The petition submitted by the applicant describes the many timses as organizers of KPPS, RT, RW. The argument is unclear and complete because it does not mention the location, the locus is not clear," continued Taufik.

Likewise with allegations of underage voters and dead voters. Do not mention the location of the incident, and the name of the substitute person who did the voting.

Regarding the issue of money politics, the KPU's attorney denied this. The reason was that the incumbent petitioner said that the election process was going well and was quoted by the mass media.

Meanwhile, regarding the campaign promise, the KPU's attorney said it was not in the KPU's domain.

In his exception, the KPU's attorney stated that the Constitutional Court was not authorized to examine and try this matter, because it did not have the legal standing and the petitioner's argument was unclear.

He asked the Constitutional Court to reject the petition submitted by the petitioner and determine the results of the vote recapitulation of the Kepri Pilkada according to the KPU's decision.

The same thing was also revealed by the attorney of Ansar Ahmad-Marlin Agustina as a related party who considered the MK not that the difference in the results of the votes was insignificant.

"Regarding violations prior to voting, the promise to give one motorbike unit. This argument is not true, it is a campaign program for related parties," he said.

Still in session, the Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly Arief Hidayat who chaired the session made sure that the team from all candidate pairs attended the finalization of the Final Voters List and signed it.