{"id":49662,"date":"2024-03-21T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49662"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:47:55","slug":"indonesia-opposition-candidate-calls-for-new-vote-after-election-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49662","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia opposition candidate calls for new vote after election loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Failed Indonesian presidential candidate Anies Baswedan challenged Prabowo Subianto&#8217;s decisive victory at the Constitutional Court on Thursday, alleging rules were unfairly changed to allow the outgoing leader&#8217;s son to run as his vice president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anies&#8217; call for a new vote comes a day after Defence Minister Prabowo, 72, was confirmed as the next leader of the world&#8217;s third-biggest democracy, beating former Jakarta governor Anies and a third rival with 58.6 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>But his campaign was mired in allegations that outgoing leader Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, had interfered in a bid to establish a political dynasty, engineering rules changes that allowed his eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka to run as Prabowo&#8217;s vice president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked for the disqualification of the vice presidential candidate&#8230; and we asked for a revote with that said VP candidate being replaced,&#8221; Anies&#8217;s legal chief Ari Yusuf Amir told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also asked the Constitutional Court to order the president to stop meddling in the next process of the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed Indonesian presidential candidate Anies Baswedan challenged Prabowo Subianto&#8217;s decisive victory at the Constitutional Court on Thursday, alleging rules were unfairly changed to allow the outgoing leader&#8217;s son to run as his vice president. Anies&#8217; call for a new vote comes a day after Defence Minister Prabowo, 72, was confirmed as the next leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[883],"class_list":["post-49662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-indonesia-opposition-candidate-calls-for-new-vote-after-election-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}