Losing Candidates Challenge Indonesian President-Elect's Victory
Voice of America
Vice presidential candidate, Mohammad Mahfud Mahmodin speaks at the hearing on the legal challenge against last month's election result, at Indonesia's constitutional court in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 27, 2024. FILE - Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, left, and his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of Indonesian President Joko Widodo, greet supporters during a gathering in Jakarta, Feb. 14, 2024.
The two losing candidates in Indonesia’s presidential election appealed to the country’s highest court Wednesday to overturn the results and stage a new election.
FILE - Move Forward party leader Chaithawat Tulathon, right, flanked by its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, talks to reporters during a news conference at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2024. FILE - Supporters of the Move Forward party gather at Democracy Monument during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, July 19, 2023.
Myanmar's nationals who crossed the border to seek shelter in Bangladesh are escorted back to their country by ships at Cox's Bazar on April 25, 2024. Bangladesh on April 25 sent home nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers and civil servants who fled to escape rebel attacks. FILE - Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army as Bangladesh border guards stand guard in Bangladesh, Feb. 5, 2024.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024. A still from a video released by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on April 24, 2024, shows a man who identified himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the hostages abducted from a music festival in Israel during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.