By: Ismail) *
The Election Process is always a separate tension, until a situation that was previously safe suddenly can turn out to be heated, especially if there are parties who feel disadvantaged or cheated, the claim is not reluctant to do, in order to fight for the victory of their champion.
Before the Constitutional Court’s decision on the requirements to sue the election results, then all the results of the regional elections were sued by those who lost or whose votes were smaller than the other contestants, as if they did not care whether or not there was valid evidence. can change the election results for the plaintiff’s defiance.
Finally the Constitutional Court was quite overwhelmed, because many disputes were submitted to the Constitutional Court, moreover the plaintiffs did not have strong supporting evidence and the difference in the vote was so great, because in addition there was no requirement the vote was sued at the Court for no charge, for this reason then The Court ruled that the Regional Election dispute that may be submitted to the Constitutional Court is that the difference in the vote acquisition was 2.5 percent or less, this was intended to limit the swift election disputes in the Constitutional Court.
After the regulation was issued, the Election disputes could be minimized, namely only those whose votes were less than 2.5% which could be submitted to the Constitutional Court, such as the Banten Pilgub dispute filed by Petahana Governor Rano Karno, to Wahidin Halim’s challenger, which was so thin. that is less than 2%, then won by Wahidin Halim, the vote results of the Election Commission were indeed higher, indeed there were a number of results of the regional elections that tried their luck by suing the Court even though the vote results were above 2.5%.
However, the Banten Pilgub which was submitted by Governor Rano Karno as Cagub Petahana against Wahidin Halim’s opponent, where the results of both were so thin that the difference was less than 2%, then Wahidin Halim won a higher vote than the incumbent.
Indeed, there are several results of regional elections that tried their luck by suing the Constitutional Court even though the results of the vote with a difference of above 2.5%, but before the trial of the subject matter by the Constitutional Court judges were declared ineligible, this meant that the claim was rejected.
This is not much different from the Presidential Election dispute that has not been completed, with the analogy of the story above, it can be interpreted that the presidential dispute can be rejected before entering the trial concerning the subject matter of the case, because there are conditions that are not met for trial to the Constitutional Court.
Moreover, with a significant difference in acquisition of 11% or almost 17 million votes, it is certainly unlikely that the lawsuit filed by Prabowo – Sandiaga’s Legal Team will be accepted for trial, even though the Court has said that the results of the General Election Dispute (PHPU) in the 2019 Election This is different from the simultaneous regional election, where there is no requirement for the number or percentage of the difference in vote acquisition between candidates to file a dispute over the 2019 Presidential Election.
However, it is probable that the Court will continue to state that the winner of the 2019 Presidential Election is the Jokowi – Jusuf Kalla (JK) pair, especially now that the difference in voting scores is high will certainly make the Court decide something similar, namely not changing the results of the 2019 presidential election where the KPU officially announced that the Jokowi – Ma’ruf Amin pair is the President and Vice President for the period 2019 – 2024.
Thus the Prabowo – Sandiaga BPN camp indeed deserves to be appreciated for not mobilizing the masses to the Constitutional Court to prevent chaos, but on the other hand Prabowo – Sandiaga still has to accept whatever the Court’s decision.
Moreover, the lawsuit filed does not attach sufficiently valid evidence, so that, so that it will further complicate the Court if the BPN faction still remains strong and does not accept the decisions that have been determined by the Constitutional Court.
The difference of 11 percent on a national scale is a large difference, it will be difficult if the elections that run transparently are rigged by that many votes. We hope that all the chaos that will occur quickly will subside, the unity between residents who have been compartmentalized can reunite and national political temperatures become more stable.
) * The author is a sociopolitical observer