JAKARTA - The Constitutional Court (MK) has ensured that the trial for disputes over the results of the general election for governors, regents and mayors or regional election disputes in 2024 runs proportionally and on time according to the deadline of 45 working days.
"God willing, with the management of the trial that we have prepared carefully, we can finish it all," said Head of the Public Relations and Protocol Bureau of the Constitutional Court Pan Mohamad Faiz when met at Building I MK, Jakarta, Wednesday, January 8, confiscated by Antara.
Faiz explained that the Constitutional Court Regulation Number 14 of 2024 has determined that the trial for the pronunciation of the final decision of the regional election dispute will be held on March 7, 2024. The schedule is adjusted to the deadline for the Constitutional Court to decide on the election dispute case.
Meanwhile, based on Article 56 of the Constitutional Court Regulation Number 3 of 2024, the dispute over the results of the regional elections was decided by the Constitutional Court within a maximum period of 45 working days since the application was registered.
On the other hand, the Constitutional Court registered 310 cases of regional election disputes in 2024. This number consists of 23 cases related to disputes over the results of the election for governor, 238 cases for regents, and 49 cases for mayors.
According to Faiz, the Court has been accustomed to handling hundreds of cases. He gave an example, the Constitutional Court can hear 306 disputes over the 2024 Legislative Member Election (Pileg) as well as disputes over regional elections in previous years on time.
"The experience of the Constitutional Court is not just this time. In fact, in yesterday's legislative election the number was almost the same. Likewise in the regional elections or the resolution of the previous regional election dispute. We can always solve all of these cases even before the deadline," said Faiz.
Furthermore, he explained that as many as 310 cases of the 2024 Pilkada dispute were divided proportionally into three panels. Overall, panels one and three handled 103 cases, while panel two handled 104 cases.
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Meanwhile, panel one chaired by Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo accompanied by Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic Foekh and Guntur Hamzah, panel two chaired by Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Saldi Isra accompanied by Constitutional Justices Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani, and panel three chaired by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat accompanied by Anwar Usman and Enny Nurbaningsih.
However, the third panel under adjustment, because Anwar Usman is being treated in hospital. Because the panel session had to be attended in full by three constitutional judges, the Constitutional Court agreed to Anwar Usman's absence by rescheduling the third panel session and borrowing a constitutional judge from another panel that was not on trial.
"Later, the judge in panel two or one will replace Mr. Anwar usman in panel three. When there are two judges, the trial cannot be held, so they have to wait until it is complete and of course the other panel will wait until the judge is complete. three," said Faiz.
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