JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of listening to the Respondent's answers and the testimony of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) for the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) case for prospective members of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) of the Regency of the Electoral District (Dapil) of Intan Jaya 3 submitted by Julianus Agimbau, a candidate for DPRD Member from the Nasdem Party, serial number 8.

The trial with case number 126-02-05-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held on Monday (06/05/2024) morning in Panel Courtroom 3 with the Panel of Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih.

In this trial, the Respondent provided an explanation regarding the Petitioner's request, which at the preliminary hearing on Monday (29/4/2024) afternoon argued that there was a difference in votes between the election results set by the Respondent (General Election Commission) and the correct election results according to the Petitioner.

According to the Petitioner, the Petitioner's vote acquisition should have been 3,528, but according to the results set by the Respondent, the Petitioner's vote was zero. The Petitioner suspects that the difference in vote acquisition was caused by the removal of the…