Mahfud Alludes To Yusril's 2014 Speech Regarding Election Assessment By The Constitutional Court Not Only Figures

Session Of The Presidential Election Results Claim At MK/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Candidate for vice president number 3 Mahfud MD slipped Yusril Ihza Mahendra's statement as an expert on constitutional law in 2014 regarding Mahakamah Konstitusi (MK)'s assessment of the election results.

It is known, now Yusril is the Head of the Prabowo-Gibran Defending Team in facing a lawsuit over the 2024 presidential election as a related party.

Mahfud mentioned Mahfud's past statement, namely the view that the Constitutional Court is not limited to assessing the number or number of votes in handling the lawsuit.

"Professional Law Teacher Prof. Yusril Ihza Mahendra when he was an expert in the 2014 election results dispute and testified at the Constitutional Court, as widely circulated on July 15, 2014, saying that the assessment of the election process, which is not only in the numbers, must be carried out by the Constitutional Court," Mahfud said at the Constitutional Court session, Thursday, March 27.

So, according to Mahfud, the Constitutional Court does not only work as a liter court. However, it also assesses violations during the election process submitted in the main case of the lawsuit

"Make the Constitutional Court just a Court of Calculators is what is actually an old, updated view," said Mahfud.

Mahfud continued, in various countries, judicial activities or judge decisions in realizing justice are mostly carried out by the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court for mistakes and fraud by election organizers.

"Several countries whose election results have been canceled by the Court, for example, Austria, Ukraine, Bolivia, Kenya, Malawi, and Thailand. The Belarusian Constitutional Court is considered a 'aham institution' or a fake court institution because it is intervened by the government," he said.

The inaugural trial of the 2024 presidential election dispute was held in two sessions on Thursday, March 27. The trial which presented applicant Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar was held at 08.00 WIB.

Meanwhile, the trial for the applicant Ganjar-Mahfud was held at 13.00 WIB. The agenda for the inaugural trial is that the applicant conveys the main points of his petition in the trial.

The Ganjar-Mahfud team in their lawsuit asked the Constitutional Court to order the KPU to repeat the 2024 presidential election process no later than June 26, 2024.

Of course, on the condition that they do not include the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair number 2, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

Not only that, but the Constitutional Court was also asked to disqualify Prabowo-Gibran as a contest and cancel the results of the 2024 presidential election vote count.