Prabowo Subianto confirmed as Indonesia's new president but court challenges loom

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Prabowo Subianto confirmed as Indonesia's new president but court challenges loom
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Indonesia's election commission has officially confirmed Prabowo Subianto won last month's election but his challengers are set to take the result to court, alleging fraud and voting irregularities.

Indonesia's Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has been officially confirmed the winner of last month's presidential election.Two of Mr Subianto's challengers are set to launch court action against the result, alleging voting irregularities.

The commission said that voter turnout for last month's election in the world's third-largest democracy was about 80 per cent. Mr Widodo's son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, is 37 but became Mr Subianto's running mate after the Constitutional Court made an exception to the minimum age requirement of 40 for candidates.

Mr Pranowo, the candidate of the governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, received 27 million votes and did not win any provinces.The lawyer representing Mr Pranowo, Todung Mulya Lubis, said election irregularities occurred before, during and after the polls. After a long campaign, Ganjar Pranowo , and Anies Baswedan are set to challenge Prabowo Subianto's election win.The lawyer representing Mr Pranowo, Todung Mulya Lubis, said his team has had difficulty getting witnesses to testify in court due to intimidation by authorities. He acknowledged that successfully challenging the election result with such a wide official margin of victory would be difficult.

But other than promising continuity, he has laid out few concrete plans for his presidency, leaving observers uncertain about what his election will mean for the country's growth and its still-maturing democracy.

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