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Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan on Wednesday challenged
Prabowo's resounding victory in last month's presidential
election in the Constitutional Court, claiming state
interference in the poll and calling for his disqualification.
They also called for another election.
Otto Hasibuan, one of the lawyers on Prabowo's legal team, told
the court that there had been no violations or interference by
President Joko Widodo or state institutions to sway the outcome
of the Feb. 14 election.
The legal team also called on the court to dismiss the case.
"These calls for re-election, disqualification, potentially
trigger other problems that will lead to constitutional crisis,"
Otto told the court.
Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, has been accused of
favoring his once bitter rival Prabowo, who was running with the
president's son Gibran Rakabuming Raka. Both were officially
announced as the winners of the election last week.
The losing candidates' teams have also called for Gibran to be
disqualified as a vice presidential candidate, and more than 300
academics and activists on Thursday submitted a legal opinion to
the court arguing that his candidacy was problematic, according
to media reports.
Challenges to election outcomes are not unusual in Indonesia and
the court is expected to make a decision on April 22.
(Additional reporting by Stefanno Sulaiman and Ananda Teresia;
Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor and Miral Fahmy)
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