PSU In Kuala Lumpur Is In The Extraordinary Category, This Is The KPU's Explanation

Illustration of the 2024 Election (ANTARA)

The General Elections Commission (KPU) revealed that the reason for the re-voting (PSU) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was in the extraordinary category.

According to KPU Chairman Haysim Asy'ari, because the PSU in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has exceeded the set time limit, which is a maximum of 10 days after the February 14, 2024 vote.

"Especially for the situation that voted for Kuala Lumpur, I'm talking about the deadline first. This is an extraordinary category," he said at the KPU office, Jakarta, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 28.

Related to this, Hasyim said, there are many things that must be prepared again, from the logistics side to efforts to remind voters again.

Then, if the recommendation of the PSU from the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is delivered in the near future, the maximum PSU limit will expire.

"What we often get problems with and we communicate between the KPU and Bawaslu is like this, what if the recommendation (PSU) comes D-1 before the deadline," he said.

Hasyim admitted that the PSU that exceeded the time limit did not only occur this time. In some cases, the PSU has been carried out due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In similar cases, the provisions of the legislation that regulates the maximum time limit for the PSU do not apply.

"We have discussed it with Bawaslu, what is the legal basis for continuing to carry out the voting that exceeds the time limit because it starts from updating voter data," he said.

The election stages in Kuala Lumpur will be repeated, in line with Bawaslu's advice to the KPU.

The KPU hopes to complete the PSU on time before the deadline for the national recap and the determination of the results of the national election on March 20, 2024.

KPU and Bawaslu previously agreed not to count the votes of post and KSK voters in Kuala Lumpur because of the integrity of the voter list and will re-update the voter list.

This is because in the process of collecting voter list data in 2023, out of a total of around 490 thousand voters who should have been matched and researched, approximately only 12 percent of voters were involved in the Election Voter Potential Population Data (DP4) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bawaslu also found a fictitious voter list updating committee (pandrih) of up to 18 people so that on voting day, the number of special voters (DPK) in Kuala Lumpur exploded to around 50 percent.