has been called into question that have been questions raised about if the election commission is actually biased towards the ruling party and if it has actually a north complaints against the ruling body so all in all all of these things actually make it more problematic and this is why the opposition parties think that more serious action is to be taken than what has been planned out with the we counting tomorrow on may 23rd and so if the opposition parties decide to go ahead and challenge this are we looking at a delay in terms of the results which we expect on thursday is that correct well the opposition parties already met with the election commission one of the requests they have made is that there's a way to verify if the electronic voting machines did are operating correctly they wanted that to be done early in the morning on thursday the for the rest of the counting began the election commission has already said no we will not be doing that be we'll be doing it in the evening as already planned as was just requested by the supreme court of india but if in the evening a mismatch is

the election commission says the turnout was the largest in india election history more than six hundred million people voted out of the nine hundred million who are eligible to take part in the six week election the issues. for the good of the country and for development work. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security issue has been protected in a way that people's imagination was fixed on that and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the first time for the first time security issue has become such a big issue in india the opposition have congratulated moti many campaign. during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision firstly let me congratulate prime minister modi i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight our battle is over ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p. . for now it's a moment for the j.p. supporters to say. and to hell joins us now live from the capital new delhi so almost twen

election commission says the turnout was the long. just in india election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900000000 there were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi. people that. this election has been one of the most divisive in modern india history i think the security. imagination was fixed. and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue. india has 29 states and 7 union territories and is the world's largest democracy there are over 8000 candidates all fighting for 543 seats in the lok sabha the incumbent prime minister narendra modi and his b j p party won the last election with a landslide victory and the 1st majority led government since 1904 repeating that in 2019 might be difficult but early exit polls suggest modi is heading to victory once again w

canada khaled joining us from islamabad thank you very much for that to thailand next where the election commission has announced results of the march twenty four gentlemen election it said the poor thai party of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra has won the most seats in the lower house of parliament but the military along. has won the most popular votes crucially none of the parties have won an absolute majority and both will need pot knows if they want to form the best government this means that we still don't know officially who will govern thailand has more from the election commission. if you look at the results there are seventy four parties who won seats in the early a vote count compared to the one today is different because of reelections in some districts. and there are also recounts and reelections at some voting stations. and several candidates have been disqualified which also affects the vote count. and the election commission received more than four hundred complaints and has up to or europe to investigate them but before we go any further it's important to understand how the

election commission officially. the 17th indian general election. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with cabin but lots more still to come on al-jazeera including star warnings about this year's hurricane season in the u.s. scientists say the storms are getting the more powerful. we'll tell you have a sport that's good for the environment has got the backing of one of hollywood's biggest stars that's coming up feeling good job on. the web sponsored by cattle and ways. we're going to start this hour here in the eastern med we have over half a dozen countries right now that are in the midst of a heat wave and it's been very dry take a look at the satellite image we've had a few clouds passing through but not any rain temperatures have been quite severe and i want to take you to israel this is what's happening right now across israel they're dealing with winds widespread wildfires of about 3500 people have had to be evacuated already 40 homes have been destroyed and wildfires are spreading right now the firefighters are tackling them but unf

and these are still early stages they are trends at the moment that the election commission is keeping the indian public abreast of data suggesting that the beach road in the lead in 292 constituencies that if they win over those 292 constituencies they've won 10 will seats than they did in 2014 and they themselves can then form an absolute majority is 272 is the magic number that any one policy needs to an upset majority not what the b.g.p. one northwestern syria rebels have launched a counterattack against pro-government forces fighting has been intensifying in a province since last month despite a cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. voters across the e.u. will elect members of the european parliament in the coming days between now and the 26th of may people from 28 nations will choose to represent them the u.k. and the netherlands are the 1st 2 countries to vote. and britain's prime minister theresa may has resisting calls to resign after her latest by exit plan backfired the revised plan included a possible vote on whether to hold a 2nd that referendum once maine's legislatio

the election commission. here on the. international observers say the election has been largely free and fair and the ruling party says the opposition claims are just a distraction they have already sensed it that 200-1000 looks a by election is not going in their favor however much they do night it. the b j p c's only one possible winner in this election incumbent prime minister narendra modi his coalition met on tuesday to discuss its agenda for a 2nd term modi campaigned hard to keep the commanding majority he won 2014 he's promised better income for farmers and more infrastructure spending but the opposition has highlighted slowing economic growth and increasing religious divisions modi's main rival is congress party leader rahul gandhi he wasn't expected to stage a major upset if neither of the main parties claims an outright majority smaller regional groupings could prove kingmaker tipping the balance of power in parliament . but any suggest one is at the beach of the headquarters in delhi she sent us this update fr

according to the election commission these are still early stages they are trends at the moment that the election commission is keeping the indian public abreast stall of data suggesting that the beach road in the lead in 292 constituencies that if they win all of those 292 constituencies they've won 10 will seats than they did in 2014 and they themselves can then form an absolute majority because 272 is the magic number that any one party needs to an upset majority not what the b.g.p. one northwestern syria rebels have launched a counterattack against pro-government forces fighting it's been intensifying in the provinces last month despite a cease fire procured by turkey and russia. voters across the will elect members of the european parliament over the coming days between now the 26th of may people from 28 nations will choose any peace to represent them you can the netherlands are the 1st countries to vote and britain's prime minister theresa may is resisting calls to resign after her latest breaks it plan backfired new pitch failed to win over both young position and many in her

it's expected that on friday the election commission of india will formally announce that the b j p r the largest winning party in india's 17th general election b j p have secured at least 300 seats and is expected along with partners to round about $350.00 seats in the lok sabha to $72.00 is the magic marker of course but now what with the absolute majority as far as. we are expecting the cabinet to meet with the prime minister to discuss the next few steps aleck's few days ahead which will obviously include choosing a new cabinet obviously swearing in parliamentarians and obviously addressing the needs of the wants of the indian public in all the issues at hand for the economy to health to national security that they want addressing by the end of friday a prime minister modi and the existing cabinet have been invited to the president's residence for a formal dinner before they leave office in terms of this particular parliament or before they are sworn back is now the trumpet ministration is being accused of trying to bypass a congressional ban on weapons sales to saudi arabia is co

we expect early indications in a round about 3 hours when they'll be live scenario with the election commission as they sort of as those results come in we're not expecting a result for at least another 6 to 7 hours so how is this election deferred to the last one in 2014 you covered both of them. it is very different to the 2014 there was an incumbent united progressive alliance government led by the indian national congress that was mired in corruption scandals the main one was the 3 g. scandal the way that licenses had been offered to various telecommunications companies the band with whether there was any sort of underhand dealings that i think the public got very sick of this whole issue of corruption that was the ticket on which new entry modi came into government on that he was going to corruption out what we've seen in the next 5 years up to 29 teens vote has been an issue of communal politics a very low level communal politics infrastructure promises that haven't been kept and also divisiveness of the rhetoric about the capability and the professionalism of politicians within governmen

according to the election commission these are still early stages they are trends at the moment that the election commission is keeping the indian public abreast of they are suggesting that the be on their own not in the lead in 292 constituencies that if they win all of those 292 constituencies they've won 10 more seats than they did in 2014 and they themselves can then form an absolute majority because 272 is the magic number that any one party needs to an absolute majority that's what b.g.p. one in certain areas certainly the north of india. have managed at the moment to retain their voter base whether they win the seats is another thing but they've managed to retain the voter base they have lost so they seem to be losing in a certain number of very few seats to pradesh or to british is that huge state in the north of the country which sends the most m.p.'s to parliament as many as 8170. one of those seats early indications suggest they may have lost 3 to 4 seats bringing the tally to a round about 65 if it's confirmed by the end of the day but they have made inroads into 2 very i

the election commission is keeping the indian public a breath of data suggesting that the. road not in the lead in 292 constituencies that if they win all of those 292 constituencies they've won 10 will seats than they did in 2014 and they themselves can then form an absolute majority is 272 is the magic number that any one policy needs to an upset majority not what the b.g.p. one. is going to underway in the european union to elect members of the european parliament between now and sunday people from 28 nations will choose him a piece to represent them the u.k. and the netherlands are the 1st countries to vote britain's prime minister theresa may is resisting calls to resign over her latest for exit plan may's new pitch failed to win over the opposition and many in her own party one of her senior cabinet ministers the head of the house of commons andre led some resigned mase latest plan included a provision for a possible 2nd referendum security in indonesia's capital is still tight after election results sparked violent protests 6 people were killed in riots and 200 injur

hundreds injured testers are angry about the results of last month's presidential election the election commission declared incumbent djoko veto the winner lawrence louis has more from jakarta. because joko widodo won the elections by quite a huge margin 2 digits 11 percentage points which translates to nearly 17000000 votes analysts have pointed out that this in a way undermines the opposition's claim that the elections were great and also worth remembering that international observers have largely declared the elections to be free and fair despite probables claims that the elections that there were fraud irregularities during the poll the acting u.s. defense secretary is playing down the possibility of the u.s. war with iran patrick shanahan insists the deployment of extra forces to the gulf is just meant to tear tehran from launching an attack. libya's on the verge of descending into a long civil war according to the u.n. special envoy warned the u.n. security council that libya risks being permanently split into if the fighting doesn't stop. the u.s. says it seen signs the syrian government ma

seats were required and the day has been one where i think everybody's been waiting for the election commission to finally confirm that the b j p have won the general election the a foregone conclusion because you can see those results coming out of the election commission website there was one result we were waiting for him a child production over in the northeast of the country that was delayed because of the distance really. that was sorted out so what we're now waiting for is the election commission press conference where the chief election commissioner siniora will actually declare that he j.p. the official winners in the mean time the prime minister narendra modi has resigned as prime minister and so has his cabinet so he's been installed now as a caretaker prime minister and we will see a whole series of events on saturday that will include the prime minister the caretaker prime minister in fact greeting his winning parliamentarians from across the country and there we expect them to vote as they would to elect a modi as their candidate for the prime ministership coinciding with that and

although never thought that i would not receive my mandate i wasn't expecting this because the election commission had approved me as a candidate. 2 months after the vote people here are still appalled by the election board's decision. lane that i think this is very unfair the. decision is wrong and whoever wins the election should take office. in minnesota not giving her the mandate they're stealing the will of the people. the election commission says good catchments should not be mayor because she was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree following the attempted coup in 2016 despite international criticism the turkish government had tens of thousands of state employees detained sacked or suspended. or was a teacher at the time was also on the list she still doesn't know why. i mean if the cousin by schools were the same election authority that allowed us to run as candidates then makes this unlawful decision it's supposed to be an absolutely independent institution but it's not it's under the control of the a.k.p. . instead of cars. the runner up candidate in her district was declared ma

according to the election commission these are still early stages they are trends at the moment that the election commission is keeping the indian public abreast of data suggesting that the beach road in the lead in 292 constituencies that if they win over those 292 constituencies they've won 10 will seats than they did in 2014 and they themselves can then form an absolute majority is 272 is the magic number that any one party needs to an upset majority not what would be g.p. one there's apparently considering plans to send thousands more troops to the middle east to guard against what it says are potential threats from iran u.s. news agencies are reporting that donald trump's national security team will be briefed on thursday. in northwestern syria rebels have launched a counterattack against pro-government forces fighting has been intensifying in atlanta province since last month despite a cease fire brokered by turkey and russia security in indonesia's capital is still tight after election results sparked violent protests 6 people were killed and riots and 200 injured on tuesday p

election commission says the turnout was the largest in india election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900000000 there were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people i voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development worked. they trust multi task. people that reject the cast is that. this election has been one of the most divisive in modern india history i think the security issue has been protected in a way that people's imagination was fixed on that and then you start feeding them constantly through your media on that so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue. india has 29 states and 7 union territories and is the world's largest democracy there are over 8000 candidates all fighting for 543 seats in the lok sabha the incumbent prime minister narendra modi and his b j p party won the last election with a landslide victory and the 1st majority led government since 1904 repeating not in 2019 might be difficult but early exit polls

the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of the 900000000 who are eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues a clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by trust. is the only person who can fight. this is the reason only and as recently as a prime minister. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security issue has been protected in a way that people's imagination was fixed. and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue in india the opposition have congratulated modi many. during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision so firstly let me congratulate prime minister murty i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight a battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p. . for no

the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of the 900000000 who are eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues a clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by trust. is the only person who can fight. corruption this is the reason only. as a prime minister. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security. that people's imagination was fixed on and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue in india the opposition have congratulated modi many. during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision so firstly let me congratulate prime minister murty i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight a battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p. . for now it's a moment of the j.p. support

the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900000000 that were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi task. people that. this election has been one of the most divisive in modern indian history i think. that imagination was fixed. and then you start feeding them. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue. india has 29 states and 7 union territories and is the world's largest democracy there are over 8000 candidates all fighting for 543 seats in the lok sabha the incumbent prime minister narendra modi and his b j p party won the last election with a landslide victory on the 1st majority led government since 1904 repeating not in 2019 might be difficult but early exit polls suggest modi is heading to victory once again or this is short time ago we have. from the main opposition challen

election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900000000 there were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi. people that. this election has been one of the most divisive in indian history i think. and then you start feeding them. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue. india has 29 states and 7 union territories and is the world's largest democracy there are over 8000 candidates all fighting for 543 seats in the lok sabha the incumbent prime minister narendra modi and his b j p party won the last election with a landslide victory on the 1st majority led government since 1900. repeating not in 2019 might be difficult but early exit polls suggest modi is heading to victory once again. joins us now from the capital in new delhi so what are the trends are emerging so far. yes indeed exciting times perhaps for tho

however it's it's final and it cannot be appealed so once the ruling is out then the general election commission will make an announcement of the final results it's worth remembering that because dodo won the elections by quite a huge margin 2 digit 11 percentage points which translates to nearly $17000000.00 votes analysts have pointed out that this in a way undermines the opposition's claim that the elections were great and also worth remembering that international observers have largely declared the elections to be free and fair despite. claims that the elections were that they were fraud irregularities during the polls. u.s. president donald trump says tariff increase in beijing's plans to counter the amazing u.s. companies in china that's according to the american chambers of commerce now they found at least 40 percent of their members are considering or have already relocated businesses outside the country china's ambassador to the u.s. says beijing is ready to continue trade talks the last round ended 2 weeks ago in beijing. well the survey shows just how worried u.s. businesses in china

was phoning and this interview has been positioned quite carefully to avoid falling afoul of election commission rules now conventional broadcast interviews are banned while voting is under way and so this interview was labeled a nonpolitical interaction so this is modi in the b j p spotting a loophole in the election rules and just taking advantage of an absolutely me using the bollywood card to do that you see there are many mainstream outlets that are openly aligned with the b.g.p. but the prime minister is not taking any chances bollywood actors have posed for selfies with him they've tweeted in support of him in fact there was even a film a biopic that was slated for release just as voting began with the election commission then intervened and said it would have to wait until after results are announced ok going back to social media now for a minute the meeting this week between the c.e.o. of twitter and one of the platforms best known users donald trump what were they talking. well reportedly one of their discussions was about something that trumpet tweeted just hours before the meeting to

the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000people voted out of the 900000000 who are eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues a clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi. this is the reason only. as a prime minister. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security. that people's imagination was fixed on and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue in india. while the opposition have not officially conceded yet some have congratulated modi many campaign make clearly during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision firstly let me congratulate prime minister modi i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight our battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p. . but now it's the

of last month's presidential election this is the saying right now in jakarta on tuesday the election commission declared incumbent djoko we don't know the winner giving him a 2nd term in office indonesia's security minister says they will partially block social media to avoid spread of rumors over night demonstrators said buildings on fire and through fireworks at police has more from jakarta. where are the protests on brown's day out been largely peaceful clashes overnight are started with a couple of 100 protesters near the office and the election supervisory board madding crowd has slowly started to swell car but it's been largely protesters have not tried to breach the police barriers can see behind me out of a barricade made up of razor wire preventing access to this road was protesters had mainly been chanting down with the hurried to the singing listening to speeches given by them and now are over who ran against president jacoby in the presidential election was urged to supporters to come out to the streets in a show of god now these protests are expected to continue until at least frid

should reach a round about a figure of 340 to 350 in the coming days we are waiting for the election commission to give an official final sign off you might say on to to confirm the. win but with me is one of the city parties that lost the congress they've been in opposition for a number of years now. is that communications director thanks very much for joining us obviously a disappointing election and the 2nd defeat for the congress party where do you go now is as an opposition party. we lead a little opposition we needed to be formally picked to really keeping this government in check whenever they tried to do and people legislation and would be have been very successful as a result in a previous state election in december of 6 when back even 3 states we rested 2 states which were very last 15 years. this election was different be 42 in new shoes and the present government. 40 don't you more do we show them now it seems that people before him or he was before. is always very difficult fighting as many people across the globe would understand a local election a state election the national elec

the election commission has been counting more than 600000000 votes cast since early on thursday and everyone is waiting for the initial announcement modi still has to be formally elected by his own party parliamentarians he's expected to meet them in a special session on saturday we need to listen to that he is celebrating the mood is very different from any opposition groups whose influence in parliament is now severely reduced given our experience the last 5 years. and that we mean business we would let them have their own way we will stand up as far as people's concerns will be i mean pick up opposition. has analysts suggest job creation in rural and urban areas is a topic the government needs to focus on has one this victory. significantly to the young and 1st time much like he did in 202014 but in the last couple of years unemployment has been very high and and it will be something that he will have to address for the young as well as for the future of the country. but one senior leader says moody's policies are working what's next in terms of how. all the sectors must move beca

production the campaigning will continue until friday evening 2200 hours so controversial the election commission of many complaints set in front of the table over this particular general election they have a lot of explaining to do when this vote is over when the results are announced and how they themselves conducted the election will be analyzed in that but for the moment that's the situation why west bengal will be ending their paintings in just a few hours' time so how around and watching the interaction for us today environ i think thank you sam. well in a few minutes we'll have the weather with everton but still ahead on al-jazeera. china hits back against what it calls a unilateral u.s. action against tech giant huawei. and in sports things go from bad to worse. as he prepares for the indy 500. the web sponsored by the time. well i we've had some rather lively showers across parts of central gapes it's little clutch of storms around italy pushing over towards the balkans or even have a little bit of snow into corsica for good measure that is rare for the month of may lots of clouds showin

election commission was saying that there was a 67 percent turnout on average nationally around about $600000000.00 votes to be counted across a 1000000 electronic voting machines and paper ballots the early trends and a very small percentage of the election commission are saying actually how much that small percentage is but a small percentage of votes have been cast in the early trends seem to show at the moment that the b j p are leading in certain constituencies as many as over 280 seats congress is in the lead by 51 i say it's only early days but this is the general trend that we're seeing it could all change in the next hour or so and we've had the vote the postal votes counted indians who live and work abroad the diplomatic service the military their votes are being counted we've just been told by the actually commission that the electronic voting machines that were under lock and key after each phase of the vote have now been transported respectively to the district commission offices in each of the constituencies there the candidates and the agents will view that count proces

election commission says the turnout was the largest in india election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900. they were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi task. people that. this election has been one of the most divisive in indian history i think the security. was fixed. and then you start feeding them. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue. india has 29 states and 7 union territories and is the world's largest democracy there are over 8000 candidates all fighting for 543 seats in the lok sabha the incumbent prime minister narendra modi and his b j p party won the last election with a landslide victory of the 1st majority led government since 1904 repeating not in 2019 might be difficult but early exit polls suggest modi is heading to victory once again al jazeera new delhi. voting is getting underway in the european union members of the euro

yes the stars here we are expecting the election commission to officially announce who the winner of the 70th indian general election is but won't come for a couple of hours yet the counting continues it's confirmed that the b j p alone as a party have now according to election commission on my website have won 299 seats and are in the lead in the 4 other constituencies with only 12 constituencies to actually consider so it seems a done deal and with their alliance partners around the country yes they will be hitting that $350.00 mark and after all the celebrations are over over the next few days there will certainly be a moment mr modi the prime minister will have to start talking about the economy and many other subjects to talk about that his professor. from the university of cambridge and joins me again on the program thanks for joining us we talked about the economy before and i think it can't be reiterated enough how the unemployment figure is the highest at the moment since 2016 as a rate sort of 7.6 percent and that has worried not just politicians but investors that's correct

i was not expecting this because the election commission had approved me as a candidate. lia: two months after the vote, people here are still apappalled by the election boa's decision. >> i think this is very unfair. >> the decision is wrong. whoever wins the election should take office. >> by not giving her the mandate, they are stealing the will of the people. julia: the election commission says gulcan kacmaz should not be mayor because she was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree following the attempted coup in 2016. despite international criticism, the turkish government had tens of thousands of state employees detained, sacked, or suspended. gulcan kacmaz was a teacher at the time and was also on the list. she still does not know why. >> the same election authority that allowed us to run as candidates, then makes this unlawful decision. it is supposed to be an absolutely independent institution, but it is not. it is under the control of the akp. julia: instead of kacmaz, the runner-up candidate in her district was declared mayor, a member of president erdoga

mulder never thought that i would not receive my mandate i wasn't expecting this because the election commission had approved me as a candidate. 2 months after the vote people here are still appalled by the election board's decision. lane that i think this is very unfair the. decision is wrong whoever wins the election should take office. by not giving her the mandate they're stealing the will of the people. the election commission says good catch most should not be mayor because she was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree following the attempted coup in 2016 despite international criticism the turkish government had tens of thousands of state employees detained sacked or suspended he was a teacher at the time was also on the list she still doesn't know why but i mean if that comes in by schools the same election authority that allowed us to run as candidates then makes this unlawful decision it's supposed to be an absolutely independent institution but it's not it's under the control of the a.k.p. . instead of catchments the runner up candidate in her district was declared made a memb

things are going to happen but it all is going to be triggered when the election commission actually declare that. the general election we know that the cabinet is meeting goes well on friday just to discuss what to do next because the cabinet will be dissolved in theory after it's had its formal dinner with the president the sebring and then of course when they start to reform the capital sworn in the official slowly as in 2 or 3 days a new indian cabinet about the sort of scenario that we're seeing right now but it all really depends on you might say the moon the. indonesia's presidential challenger. is expected to file a legal challenge to last month's election results have been days of violent protests in jakarta with at least 7 people killed and 200 others injured in the past week protesters are angry that president joker we don't know was declared the winner of last month's election they say there was widespread cheating but the election commission says the poll was free and fair that speak to foreigners so we live in jakarta so far as today's the deadline for the presidential c