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PDI-P dismisses two House members-elect over election fraud
The nationalist party has expelled two members over manipulating votes in their electoral districts to win February's legislative election, automatically making them ineligible to take up their seats at the House of Representatives.
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Megawati Soekarnoputri (center), chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) delivers a speech on Jan. 10, 2024 during a gathering in Jakarta to celebrate the party's 51st anniversary. (Antara/M Risyal Hidayat)
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he Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has fired Tia Rahmania, who was to be installed to the House of Representatives on Tuesday to represent the Banten I electoral district, after the party’s internal tribunal and ethics committee found her guilty of manipulating votes in February’s legislative election.
“She was dismissed for inflating votes to benefit herself,” PDI-P spokesperson Chico Hakim said on Thursday, as quoted by Kompas.com.
According to PDI-P executive Ronny Talapessy, the allegation of election fraud against Tia case came to light following a ruling on May 13 by the Banten Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) regarding violations by eight subdistrict elections committees (PPK).
The day following the Banten agency’s ruling, Ronny said, the PDI-P tribunal held a hearing and found that Tia had inflated the number of votes. The PDI-P's ethics committee followed up by holding a disciplinary hearing on Sept. 3.
“Both hearings found Tia Rahmania guilty and imposed a strict sanction of dismissal from the party,” he said.
The PDI-P then sent a letter to the General Elections Commission (KPU) about Tia's dismissal.
Last week, the election body issued a decision signed by KPU chair Mochamad Afifuddin to annul Tia’s election as a House member and replace her with Bonnie Triyana, the PDI-P member who won the second-highest number of votes in the same electoral district, Tempo.co reported.
