Jakarta – Papua has lodged the most regional head election dispute claims with the Constitutional Court, a court official has said.
"The highest number of requests for the handling of disputes on the results of gubernatorial, regental and mayoral elections on Dec. 9, 2015, is from Papua, which reaches 16," court spokesperson Budi Ahmad Johari said as quoted by Antara in Jakarta on Tuesday.
He further said that North Sumatra ranked second with 15 disputes. Meanwhile, Yogyakarta was the only region not to dispute its election results. "Yogyakarta held three regional head elections but it lodged no election dispute," said Budi.
After the simultaneous Dec. 9 regional elections, the court accepted election dispute claims until Dec. 26 and received 147 requests from 132 regions.
One hundred and twenty-eight disputes were submitted by regent and deputy regent candidate pairs, followed by 11 submitted by mayor and deputy mayor candidate pairs, six by governor and deputy governor candidate pairs and one by observers of a regional election with only one candidate pair in Tasikmalaya regency.
The one remaining election dispute, namely in Boven Digoel regency, Papua, was also not lodged by a regional head candidate pair.
Election dispute claims were lodged by governor and deputy candidate pairs in Bengkulu, Central Sulawesi, North Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, Riau Islands and West Sumatra. (ebf)