Jul 24, 2009

Megawati-Prabowo Team Calls for More Witnesses in Vote Counting

INDONESIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2009 - The Megawati Soekarnoputri-Prabowo Subianto presidential campaign team has called on the General Elections Comission (KPU) to allow team to send more than two witnesses to the vote counting process currently underway.

"We’ll send the KPU a letter about this important issue," team secretary Fadli Zon said Wednesday at a press conference.
He added witnesses from his team had been prohibited from entering the KPU building earlier in the day because the KPU would only allow two witnesses from each candidate’s team to monitor the vote counting.
Arteria Dahlan, the legal counsel for the Megawati-Prabowo team, said the witnesses were intimated by the KPU’s ban.
"It would be hard for our two witnesses to file an objection if there was a case in a certain area where they do not come from,” Arteria said.(jp)

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