JAKARTA: Indonesian presidential challenger Anies Baswedan filed a grievance to the nation’s constitutional court docket on Thursday contesting defence minister Prabowo Subianto‘s decisive win after allegations of irregularities and fraud.
Prabowo, 72, was confirmed as the subsequent chief of the world’s third-biggest democracy on Wednesday, beating former Jakarta governor Anies and a 3rd rival with 58.6 p.c of the vote — sufficient to safe a first-round majority.
However the marketing campaign was mired in allegations that outgoing chief Joko Widodo, extra popularly often called Jokowi, had interfered in a bid to determine a political dynasty, as his eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka ran as Prabowo’s vice chairman.
“We formally submitted the request for an election dispute petition to the Constitutional Courtroom,” Anies’s authorized chief Ari Yusuf Amir advised reporters outdoors their marketing campaign headquarters.
“Earlier this morning at 1:00 am (1800 GMT Wednesday), we submitted the registration on-line, and presently our crew is on the Constitutional Courtroom processing the executive necessities.”
Anies’s crew has mentioned the intention of the grievance is to enhance future elections and Indonesia’s younger democracy, which emerged from many years of autocratic rule within the late Nineteen Nineties.
Jokowi was criticised after his brother-in-law, then-chief justice Anwar Ibrahim, issued an October ruling reducing the age necessities for presidential and vice presidential candidates that allowed Gibran to run with Prabowo.
Anies — who bought 24.9 p.c of the vote — refused to concede after official outcomes have been introduced Wednesday, condemning the winner’s path to victory.
“Management that was born out of a course of tainted by dishonest and violations will end in a regime that can produce insurance policies which might be filled with unfairness, and we do not need this to occur,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Anies’s operating mate Iskandar Muhaiman mentioned Wednesday night that alleged irregularities included “regulatory engineering to the intervention of state apparatuses”.
Prabowo was broadly predicted to win the presidency on his third try after shedding in 2014 and 2019.
His authorized crew was assured the consequence wouldn’t be efficiently challenged due to his majority and broad margin of victory, native media reported.
Officers from his marketing campaign crew didn’t reply to an AFP request for remark.
He takes over in October after a transition interval.
Prabowo, 72, was confirmed as the subsequent chief of the world’s third-biggest democracy on Wednesday, beating former Jakarta governor Anies and a 3rd rival with 58.6 p.c of the vote — sufficient to safe a first-round majority.
However the marketing campaign was mired in allegations that outgoing chief Joko Widodo, extra popularly often called Jokowi, had interfered in a bid to determine a political dynasty, as his eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka ran as Prabowo’s vice chairman.
“We formally submitted the request for an election dispute petition to the Constitutional Courtroom,” Anies’s authorized chief Ari Yusuf Amir advised reporters outdoors their marketing campaign headquarters.
“Earlier this morning at 1:00 am (1800 GMT Wednesday), we submitted the registration on-line, and presently our crew is on the Constitutional Courtroom processing the executive necessities.”
Anies’s crew has mentioned the intention of the grievance is to enhance future elections and Indonesia’s younger democracy, which emerged from many years of autocratic rule within the late Nineteen Nineties.
Jokowi was criticised after his brother-in-law, then-chief justice Anwar Ibrahim, issued an October ruling reducing the age necessities for presidential and vice presidential candidates that allowed Gibran to run with Prabowo.
Anies — who bought 24.9 p.c of the vote — refused to concede after official outcomes have been introduced Wednesday, condemning the winner’s path to victory.
“Management that was born out of a course of tainted by dishonest and violations will end in a regime that can produce insurance policies which might be filled with unfairness, and we do not need this to occur,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Anies’s operating mate Iskandar Muhaiman mentioned Wednesday night that alleged irregularities included “regulatory engineering to the intervention of state apparatuses”.
Prabowo was broadly predicted to win the presidency on his third try after shedding in 2014 and 2019.
His authorized crew was assured the consequence wouldn’t be efficiently challenged due to his majority and broad margin of victory, native media reported.
Officers from his marketing campaign crew didn’t reply to an AFP request for remark.
He takes over in October after a transition interval.
