Mahfud MD Regarding 3 Judges Dissenting Opinion In The Presidential Election Lawsuit Decision: Interesting, Throughout History Never Existed

Mahfud MD/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - Vice Presidential Candidate number three, Mahfud MD highlighted the dissenting opinion by the three judges who tried the dispute over the results of the 2024 presidential election. This is called interesting and the first time there is a difference.

"Well, about the dissenting opinion, this is interesting. Throughout the history of the Constitutional Court, when it comes to elections, there has never been a dissenting opinion," Mahfud told reporters at the Ganjar-Mahfud Command Post, Teuku Umar, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Monday, April 22.

Mahfud said that dissenting opinion is unusual when it comes to someone's position. In fact, there is no need.

"I have followed the Constitutional Court from the start, until now there has been no dissenting opinion in the election. Because the judge's code of ethics is actually, when it comes to people's positions, there should not be a dissenting opinion so that it looks compact and there are no problems," said the former Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs.

"Therefore, you can only see the 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 elections. All the voting judges are the same," he continued.

Mahfud MD suspects that the differences of opinion between the three judges can no longer be put together. However, he considers it not a problem because this decision is history.

Mahfud believes that the judges have worked well. "Eight judges decided this, God willing, they will be fine," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.

Previously reported, the application from the Ganjar-Mahud camp regarding the Dispute on the General Election Results (PHPU) of the President and Vice President 2024 was rejected by the Constitutional Court. "Rejecting the petition of the applicant in its entirety," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo. There are three constitutional judges who stated dissenting opinions in this decision. They are Saldi Isra, Enny Nurbaningsih, and Arief Hidayat. Kubu Ganjar-Mahfud submitted a request that the Constitutional Court disqualify candidate pair number two, namely, Parbowo-Gibran to be validated. There are several arguments in the petition submitted, such as allegations of ethical violations during the 2024 presidential election. Then, there was a nepotism action carried out by President Joko Widodo. In addition, there are also allegations regarding the occurrence of coordinated abuse of power throughout the government line, and allegations of violation of election procedures that occurred before the voting process that occurred at SIREKAP.