Jakarta, July 10 (Antara) - Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto
said he will rely on the General Elections Commission's (KPU) vote count
results more than the quick count results by survey institutions
regarding presidential polls on Wednesday (July 9).
Prabowo said the red-and-white coalition (a coalition that had
nominated Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa as presidential and vice presidential
candidates) will continue to call on its rank and file to remain calm
and not to be provoked by other parties.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has earlier called on both
presidential candidate pairs to refrain from indulging in any actions
that might heat up the situation.
President Yudhoyono made the announcement at a press conference in Puri
Cikeas, Bogor, Wednesday afternoon, responding to the increasingly
heated situation after both candidate pairs, Prabowo-Hatta and
Jokowi-JK, had claimed victory based on quick count results.
The unofficial quick counts by various survey institutions, such as
SMRC, LSI, Indikator, CSIS-Cyrrus, Kompas, and RRI, showed that the
Jokowi-JK pair had won an average 52 percent of the votes, while the
Prabowo-Hatta duo had secured about 47 percent.
Meanwhile, other survey institutions, such as the LSN, IRC, Puskaptis,
and JSI, gave a victory of average 51 percent to the Prabowo-Hatta pair
and average 49 percent to the Jokowi-JK pair.
"In my capacity as president, head of state, who has not taken any
sides, I call on the two camps to control the excessive tension between
their supporters. Moreover, any provocative actions at the grassroots
level can trigger a conflict," he stated.
The President also called on leaders and political elites to urge
individual supporters to exercise restraint until the official results
have been announced.
"The quick count rating is not official, so people should wait for the
official results of the presidential election by the KPU," he affirmed.
Chief Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto
had also appealed to the supporters of the presidential candidates to
have a proportional response toward quick counts results, as the figures
were not the official results of the election.
"The official results will be announced on July 22, 2014, after the
accumulative vote count by the KPU," Joko stated in his text message to
Antara on Thursday.
Therefore, presidential candidate Prabowo with his running mate Hatta
Rajasa will leave the results of the vote counts to the KPU.
"We completely leave it to the KPU, which will carry out a real vote
count, not a quick count," Prabowo said after a meeting with President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the president's Cikeas residence on
Wednesday night.
He said that the real counting process by the KPU will take time, so it
was wrong if any party had already declared a victory in the
Wednesday's polls.
He also called on the other parties not to carry out actions in the
field that will spark wars of perception claiming that their side was
the winner.
"Now, the conditions are still volatile and we should restrain together," he said.
He also called on the media not to publish opinions that could mislead
or provoke the public. He said his side respected the press freedom.
However, he added, there were still groups of media that continued to
publish orchestrated facts. So, his rank and file will consistently
monitor developments to ensure the absence of claims not based on facts
in the field.
In the meantime, regarding vote counting, KPU Chairman Husni Kamil
Manik asked the public to help supervise its recapitulation process of
the presidential election.
"The
Polling Committee (PPS) will today (Thursday) commence the
recapitulation of votes at the village level until July 12. We offer a
wide opportunity to the public to take part in the recapitulation
process," the KPU chairman stated here on Thursday.
In
addition, the KPU has also asked civil organizations and election
activists to help in monitoring the recapitulation process.
Husni
assured the public that the KPU and its rank and file will work
professionally in carrying out the recapitulation task until the
announcement of the winner on July 22, 2014.
After
the polling stage and vote counting at polling stations on Wednesday
(July 9), commencing Thursday, the PPS had carried out tiered
recapitulation at the village, sub-district, district/municipality, and
provincial levels.
The tiered recapitulation began on Thursday at the village level and will last for three days until Saturday.
The
recapitulation will further be carried out at the sub-district level
for three days until July 15, 2. The process will be continued by the
local KPU at the district level from July 16 to July 17 and at the
provincial level between July 20 and July 22.
Indonesian
citizens flocked to polling stations to vote for a new president for
the 2014-2019 term of office on Wednesday.
According
to the KPU, a total of 190,307,134 eligible voters have been registered
for the presidential election on July 9, 2014, with 486,866 polling
stations established across the archipelago.
The
total number of eligible voters included 2,038,711 overseas voters who
cast their votes three to four days ahead of the nationwide polling day.
The
presidential election is being contested by two pairs of presidential
and vice presidential candidates, Prabowo Subianto with Hatta Rajasa as
his running mate and Jokowi who pairs with JK.
The winning pair will be officially inaugurated as the country's
seventh president and vice president in October 2014.***1***
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