JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY –The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of listening to the Respondent's answers, the Election Supervisory Body's (Bawaslu) statement, and the Relevant Party's statement for the General Election Result Dispute (PHPU) case for candidates for members of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRK) submitted by H. Hasbi Ahmad, candidate for DPRK Aceh Utara Member in the Aceh Utara 5 Electoral District from the National Awakening Party (PKB).

The trial with case number 175-02-01-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held in Panel 3 Hearing Room on Monday (07/05/2024) with the Panel of Judges consisting of Constitutional Justice 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 in the previous preliminary hearing argued that there was a difference in votes between the Petitioner's votes as determined by the Petitioner and the Petitioner's correct votes according to the Petitioner. The Petitioner explained that his vote acquisition in Lapang District should have been 184 votes, but the vote acquisition determined by the Respondent for the Petitioner's votes was only 54 votes. According to the Petitioner, the difference in votes was due to the addition of votes for…