But three of the eight judges on the panel had dissenting opinions.
The formal count by the General Elections Commission showed defence minister Prabowo Subianto had won the election by a landslide.
Former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and his running mate, veteran politician Muhaimin Iskandar, one of the two pairs of candidates who lost in the Feb 14 polls, wanted the voting to be conducted again and the court to disqualify Mr Prabowo and Mr Gibran, the elder son of incumbent President Joko Widodo.
Mr Widodo did not officially endorse anyone in the race to succeed him, but his elder son’s decision to be Mr Prabowo’s running mate is widely seen as“The Constitutional Court is not convinced that there was a cause-and-effect relation between social aid distribution and the increase of any candidate’s votes,” said Constitutional Court Justice Daniel Yusmic Pancastaki Foekh, when taking his turn to read the ruling document.
Mr Anies also faced an unexpected region-wide power outage just as he was about to hold a rally in Madura, East Java. Mr Anwar was removed from his position by the court’s ethics committee on Nov 7, following widespread public protests against the decision. “Any situation that would breach an anti-nepotism clause is any position that is filled by way of direct appointment. Any position that is filled through a general election cannot be qualified as a form of nepotism,” said Mr Daniel.
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