Polls Watchdog Interrupts Wiranto's Speech

The Blora Election Supervision Committee (Panwaslu) interrupted on Thursday a speech by vice presidential candidate Wiranto during a meeting with executives and supporters of Golkar Party in the Central Java regency.

Chairman of the regional polls watchdog Wahono said the local police had notified organizers of the event to close the meeting at 8 p.m. in accordance with the police permit.

“We had already given additional 10 minutes. If the gathering continued, we would dissolve it,” Wahono was quoted by kompas.com. Wiranto stopped his speech three minutes past 8 p.m.

He said Panwaslu had found the organizers violated the election law for involving children in the event.

Local chairman of presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto campaign team, Maulana Kusnanto, said he was not aware of the breach of the election law, but said he would be responsible for it.