Indonesia's likely loser in presidential race tries to delay result

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Source: Reuters

The likely loser in Indonesia's presidential race made a last-gasp attempt to delay the announcement of the official election results on Tuesday, expected to declare Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as the nation's next leader.

Most private tallies show Jokowi beat former special forces chief Prabowo Subianto by about five percentage points.

Prabowo has refused to concede defeat, demanding the result be delayed by two weeks to investigate allegations of mass cheating. He is expected to challenge the vote in the Constitutional Court, though experts say such an appeal is unlikely to succeed.

"All we are asking for is time to study (the allegations). I think we are being reasonable," Prabowo's aide and younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-indonesia-election-idUSKBN0FQ23F20140722

[Turborama]

1. In an unprecedented move,Prabowo's now thrown all the toys out of the pram & withdrawn his candidacy

After 2 weeks of vote counting and literally just before the result is announced. I have been following this for the past couple of months and there has been/is a lot of worry here in Indonesia about how the loser and their supporters will react.

Prabowo withdraws from Indonesian election process
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/21/world/asia/indonesia-election-result

[TygrBright]

2. Lordy, just wait 'til our Teepers get hold of this one... n/t