On the evening of March 20, the Indonesian National Election Commission (KPU) announced the final official vote count results of last month's presidential election, with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto as the winner.
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| Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto was elected President of Indonesia in the election held on February 14. (Source: AP) |
AP reported that according to the vote count in 38 provinces in the country, Mr. Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Vice President candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, won 58.58% of the vote.
The pair of former Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and candidate Muhaimin Iskandar came in second with 24.94% of the votes, while the support rate for the pair of candidates Ganjar Pranowo, former Governor of Central Java province, and his running mate Mahfud Md. was 16.46%.
In terms of foreign constituencies, the rankings of the three candidate pairs remained unchanged, with Prabowo Subianto's pair outperforming the next pair by more than 300,000 votes.
In total, the Prabowo-Gibran pair received 96,304,691 votes, the Anies-Muhaimin pair received 40,971,726 votes while the Ganjar-Mahfud pair received 27,041,508 votes.
According to the Indonesian Election Law, in case of a dispute regarding the determination of the voting results, the candidate pairs can file an objection to the Constitutional Court within a maximum of 3 days after the official results are available.
Indonesia's president and vice president-elect are scheduled to take office on October 20.
Reuters reported that after the official results were announced, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations to Mr. Prabowo Subianto.
"We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto on his victory and once again applaud the people of Indonesia for their strong voter turnout," Mr. Blinken said.
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