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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 15:59
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PRESIDENT ASKS FOR REPORTS ON SETTLEMENT OF ELECTION-RELATED COMPLAINTS
Jakarta, April 20 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Monday asked the National Police chief and the Attorney General to report on the legal settlement of people's complaints or lawsuits about irregularities in the recent legislative elections.
"We want everything processed well and seriously by the police and Attorney General's Office," the president at a limited cabinet meeting to evaluate the legislative elections at the presidential office.
But the president added that the government was expected to be well responsive to the matters.
"We have to process everything according to law, and to prove that no single case cannot go under legal process," the president said.
The head of state asserted that he had received reports on a number of violations in the legislative elections but the legal domain was the responsibility the law enforcers.
"It trust it to the law enforcers but what I want to hear is their preparedness and things that they have done so far," the president said.
He reiterated his statement last Thursday that the 2009 election was more complicated than the one in 2004 because the ballot count for each legislative candidate was based on the most votes gained and not on sequence number.
"What I have monitored in printed and electronic media is that the competition among the political parties and legislative candidates is so high," Yudhoyono said.
He expressed hope that the supervision in the ballot counts made by various parties should be done proportionally in order to avoid conflict at grass root community.
"As the head of state, I have to make sure that the General Election Commission (KPU) carried out its task well in accordance with the law," he said in the limited cabinet meeting attended among others by Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo AS, National Police chief, Attorney General, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief.
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"We want everything processed well and seriously by the police and Attorney General's Office," the president at a limited cabinet meeting to evaluate the legislative elections at the presidential office.
But the president added that the government was expected to be well responsive to the matters.
"We have to process everything according to law, and to prove that no single case cannot go under legal process," the president said.
The head of state asserted that he had received reports on a number of violations in the legislative elections but the legal domain was the responsibility the law enforcers.
"It trust it to the law enforcers but what I want to hear is their preparedness and things that they have done so far," the president said.
He reiterated his statement last Thursday that the 2009 election was more complicated than the one in 2004 because the ballot count for each legislative candidate was based on the most votes gained and not on sequence number.
"What I have monitored in printed and electronic media is that the competition among the political parties and legislative candidates is so high," Yudhoyono said.
He expressed hope that the supervision in the ballot counts made by various parties should be done proportionally in order to avoid conflict at grass root community.
"As the head of state, I have to make sure that the General Election Commission (KPU) carried out its task well in accordance with the law," he said in the limited cabinet meeting attended among others by Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo AS, National Police chief, Attorney General, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief.
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