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| Kalla files lawsuit over result |
| 2009-07-28 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIA'S vice president, who ran against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in elections this month and lost, on Monday filed a lawsuit demanding that the results be annulled, citing inaccurate voter lists. Dr Yudhoyono won 60.8 per cent of the votes in the July 8 presidential election, according to the official count by the General Election Commission (KPU). Vice President Jusuf Kalla won 12.41 per cent of the votes, and former President Megawati Sukarnoputri got 26.79 per cent. Those results were in line with many of the opinion polls and election quick count results, but both Megawati and Kalla had said they would challenge the results. Analysts do not expect these challenges to affect the election outcome. Complaints by Mdm Megawati and Mr Kalla of voter list irregularities dogged the final hours before the actual election, and in the end, the authorities allowed those whose names did not appear on the electoral rolls to use their identity cards in order to vote. 'We want the KPU's decision to be cancelled. If it is cancelled, it means the election has to be repeated,' said Andi Muhammad Asrun, one of the lawyers from Mr Kalla's legal team. The constitutional court accepted the lawsuit and a clerk at the court said that the first hearing was set for August 4. Mdm Megawati's legal team also plans to file a similar suit to the constitutional court on Tuesday. |
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