MK Rejects Anies-Muhaimin’s Lawsuit, Three Judges Express Dissenting Opinion

JAKARTA – The Constitutional Court (MK) decided to reject the lawsuit to dispute the results of the 2024 presidential election filed by the pair Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar. Three judges delivered dissenting opinion.

The decision was read by Chief Constitutional Court Suhartoyo, Monday (22/4/2024). Regarding the Constitutional Court’s decision, three judges expressed different opinions or dissenting opinions. The three constitutional judges are Sale Isra , Enny Nurbaningsih and Arief Hidayat .

It is known that the Constitutional Court decided to reject all lawsuits regarding the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Election Results Dispute (PHPU) filed by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate Number 1 Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin).

“In conclusion, based on an assessment of the facts and law as described above, the Court concludes that the petitioner’s and related parties’ exceptions regarding the Court’s authority as well as the related parties’ exceptions regarding the deadline for filing the petition and legal standing are unreasonable according to law,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo when reading out the results. PHPU decision at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Monday (22/4/2024).

Suhartoyo said that the court had the authority to hear the a quo petition, the petition was submitted within a team within the time determined by statutory regulations.

The legal request, said Suhartoyo, is to submit an a quo petition with the principal of the petition being that according to law the petitioner’s petition is not legally based in its entirety based on the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, Law Number 24 of 2003 concerning the Constitutional Court as last amended by Law number 7 of 2020 onwards is considered read.

“The decision to judge in the exception rejects the exception of the respondent and related parties in its entirety. In the main petition it rejects the applicant’s application in its entirety,” he concluded.

Previously, the Constitutional Court judges had read out their considerations for rejecting the lawsuit from Presidential-Vice-Presidential Candidate Anies-Cak Imin, including proving President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi) cawe-cawe argument in the 2024 Presidential Election, so that the provision of social assistance was not enough to prove structured, systematic, fraud in the 2024 Presidential Election. and massive (TSM).

It is known that the AMIN couple has filed a case for canceling the results of the Presidential Election with registration number Number 1/PHPU.PRES-XXII/2024. The AMIN couple believes that the 2024 presidential election did not run as it should in an honest, fair and free manner, instead there was a structured, systematic and massive betrayal of the constitution.

One of the arguments for the case petition from the AMIN National Legal Team is that they want justice for the results of the 2024 Election. Apart from that, they hope that this presidential election dispute will end with a re-voting (PSU) without including Candidate Candidate Number 2 Gibran Rakabuming Raka. If the PSU is carried out, the Vice Presidential Candidate Number 2 must be replaced with another.

(zik)