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KPU TO ANNOUNCE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RETURNS ON TIME : SPOKESMAN
Jakarta, May 5 (ANTARA) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) will announce the results of the recent legislative and regional representative elections on time, namely on May 9 at the latest, a KPU member said.
KPU member Endang Sulastri said here on Tuesday the election body was expected to announce the numbers of votes and seats in the House won by the electoral contestants during the April 9, 2009 legislative elections as scheduled.
Sulastri made the statement in response to a question on the possibility that the announcement of the final results of the elections would be delayed.
This is due to the fact that a number of vote recapitulations in a number of provinces had not yet been approved and had to be rediscussed.
In the meantime, recapitulations in a number of provinces had not yet been discussed in a plenary meeting of the KPU.
Based in Law No. 10 / 2008 on Legislative Elections, the KPU is required to announce the national results of the elections 30 days at the latest after the polls are conducted.
"We hope that we will finish the calculation and announce the the numbers of votes and seats (won by political parties) on May 9, 2009 at the latest. The number of votes and seats will serve as a reference on the requirement for political parties or a coalition of parties to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates," she said.
She said that the KPU would do its best to finish the vote recapitulation on time because it had a tight election schedule where the president- and vice president-elect will be installed on October 20, 2009.
Up to Tuesday, the KPU had finished vote recapitulations on 25 provinces (57 electoral districts), namely the provinces of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, Lampung, Bangka Belitung, Riau Islands, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, Banten, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Northeast Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Gorontalo and West Sulawesi.***1***
KPU member Endang Sulastri said here on Tuesday the election body was expected to announce the numbers of votes and seats in the House won by the electoral contestants during the April 9, 2009 legislative elections as scheduled.
Sulastri made the statement in response to a question on the possibility that the announcement of the final results of the elections would be delayed.
This is due to the fact that a number of vote recapitulations in a number of provinces had not yet been approved and had to be rediscussed.
In the meantime, recapitulations in a number of provinces had not yet been discussed in a plenary meeting of the KPU.
Based in Law No. 10 / 2008 on Legislative Elections, the KPU is required to announce the national results of the elections 30 days at the latest after the polls are conducted.
"We hope that we will finish the calculation and announce the the numbers of votes and seats (won by political parties) on May 9, 2009 at the latest. The number of votes and seats will serve as a reference on the requirement for political parties or a coalition of parties to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates," she said.
She said that the KPU would do its best to finish the vote recapitulation on time because it had a tight election schedule where the president- and vice president-elect will be installed on October 20, 2009.
Up to Tuesday, the KPU had finished vote recapitulations on 25 provinces (57 electoral districts), namely the provinces of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, Lampung, Bangka Belitung, Riau Islands, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, Banten, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Northeast Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Gorontalo and West Sulawesi.***1***
