TEHRAN, May 21 - Indonesia's Joko Widodo won another term as president of the world's third-biggest democracy, official results showed Tuesday, after his rival Prabowo Subianto, a retired general, alleged widespread cheating.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The elections commission was expected to announce the final tally of the April 17 poll on Wednesday in the Southeast Asian nation of 260 million.
Widodo and his vice-presidential running mate Ma'ruf Amin won the election by a 55.5 percent to 44.5 percent margin over Subianto and Sandiaga Uno, the commission said.
Some 85.6 million Indonesians cast their ballot in favour of Widodo out of about 154 million voters, it added.
Widodo, 57, had been widely predicted to win according to unofficial results.
But Subianto, 67, has vowed to challenge any victory for his rival, alleging widespread voter fraud and cheating, and warned that it could spark street protests across the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.
Source: AFP
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