Pede Wins At The Constitutional Court, Hotman Paris Prays For Yusril To Become Attorney General

Prabowo-Gibran's legal team member, Hotman Paris Hutapea/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - A member of the Prabowo-Gibran legal team, Hotman Paris Hutapea, openly prayed that the head of his legal team, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, would be elected as Attorney General.

This was revealed by Hotman on the sidelines of the 2024 presidential election dispute trial held by the Constitutional Court (MK).

"First, I say, hopefully he will become the Attorney General quickly. Yusril, hopefully become the attorney general," said Hotman at the Constitutional Court building, Thursday, April 4.

Hotman felt that the Prabowo-Gibran camp would win a dispute over the results of the general election (PHPU) at the Constitutional Court, as well as the petitioners' lawsuits, namely Anies-Muhaimin and Ganjar-Mahfud, were not granted.

Dengan jemawa, Hotman menilai para kuasa hukum yang membela Prabowo-Gibran di MK memiliki jam terbang tinggi, sehingga peluang kemenangan lebih besar.

"I have 38 years of lawyers, and 20 years at the world's giant office, 4 years in Australia with 700 foreign lawyers," explained Hotman.

Therefore, according to him, if the applicant argued that Prabowo-Gibran's victory in the 2024 presidential election was due to the disputed nepotism of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

"What we are studying, it is impossible for the court to state that someone violates the law if he is not a party in the case," explained Hotman.

"This application always blames Jokowi, including regarding social assistance and the Acting Minister of Home Affairs. Jokowi and the Minister of Home Affairs are not parties in this case. So, how can the Constitutional Court say that Jokowi violates the law?" he continued.

Today, the Constitutional Court held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of reading information from experts and witnesses related parties, in this case the Prabowo-Gibran camp.

In detail, the experts presented by the Prabowo-Gibran camp in today's trial included Professor of Constitutional Science at Pakuan University, Andi muhammad Asrun; Law expert, Abdul Khair Ramadhan; Professor of the Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Aminuddin Ilmar; and constitutional law expert Margarito Thursday.

Then, the Dean of the Faculty of Management of the IPDN Government, Khalil khairi; Professor of Criminal Law at Gadjah Mada University and former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, Founder of the Cyrus Network survey institute, Hasan Hasbi; and Executive Director of Indo Baroemeter, Muhammad Qodari.

As for the witnesses, there were six people presented, Chairman of Commission II of the House of Representatives Ahmad Doli Kurnia; Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives Ace Hasan Syadzily; Gani Muhammad; Andi Bataralifu; Tanjung Suprianto; and Abdul Wahid.