JAKARTA, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Indonesia's Constitutional Court issued a ruling Thursday that confirmed Joko Widodo as the winner of the July presidential election.
His defeated opponent, Prabowo Subianto, lost the election to Joko by a six percent margin, alleging electoral fraud hours before the election results were issued.
Prabowo alleged the vote-counting was "a massive, structured and systematic fraud,", withdrew from the race after it became clear Joko was the winner, and said he would appeal the results.
The Constitutional Court reviewed Prabowo's appeal and announced Thursday a unanimous rejection of the appeal.
"The court rejects ... all applications from the applicant [Mr Subianto] by all nine judges," Constitutional Court Chief Hamdan Zoelva declared at an hours-long reading of the verdict.
Subianto's campaign said they would accept the Constitutional Court's verdict.
