TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The General Election Commission (KPU) questioned one aspect mentioned in Prabowo Subianto’s campaign team (BPN) election dispute lawsuit to the Constitutional Court (MK), which sees demands for the KPU to erase 17.5 million final voters list (DPT) BPN deemed preposterous.

KPU Commissioner Viryan Azis explained that the increased amount of voters is a natural increase if compared to prior election trends. The 2009 general elections saw the DPT amount to 176 million voters and saw that number grow to 190 million in the 2014 elections before KPU concluded that there are 192 million voters in the 2019 DPT.

“If the 2019 DPT is reduced by 17.5 million then the number will be lower compared to the 2009 general elections DPT. Would it make sense for the KPU to do such a thing? That is our simple explanation upon responding to the lawsuit,” said Viryan on Monday, May 27.

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Moreover, KPU reasserts it once announced a clarification on the 17.5 million DPT issue to both Prabowo and Jokowi’s campaign team (TKN).

“As we all know, starting from September, October, November, and December the BPN and TKN constantly gave inputs to the KPU, which was responded responsively based on their inputs. We could see that for the fact that the DPT formulation process went through three stipulations,” Viryan asserts.

Prabowo – Sandiaga Uno camp’s lawsuit at the Constitutional Court (MK) is deeply rooted in the general election’s technical execution where they deemed the 17.5 million final voters list invalid. The lawsuit also mentions BPN’s claimed C7 forms that went missing and the vote count information system (Situng).

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