International media highlighted the self-declaration of Prabowo Subianto as the president of Indonesia

News24xx.com - A number of international media highlighted the declaration of the victory of presidential candidate number 02, Prabowo Subianto, even though the results of the real count of the election organizers stated that his rival and incumbent, Joko Widodo, is winning in that election.

The British newspaper, The Guardian, reported that Prabowo claimed to win the 2019 presidential election even though the quick count results from a number of survey institutions said that he and his partner, Sandiaga Uno, are losing against Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin. The Guardian also cited Prabowo's victory speech regarding his promise to become president for all circles.

Singaporean newspapers such as The Straits Times and news portal Channel NewsAsia reported similar things. In its article entitled "Prabowo Subianto claims Victory with His Team ‘Real Count’", The Straits Times explained that Prabowo also debated the results of the quick count which stated that he was losing against Jokowi. In addition, the Qatar news portal, Al Jazeera, The South China Morning Post, and ABC News also reported the same thing.

Prabowo said he deliberately declared his victory faster because he claimed to have proof that there had been various types of fraud in a number of districts / cities throughout Indonesia. BPN’s (Prabowo’s campaign team) internal counting resulted a contradict result from all of the resuls got by independent survey institutions.

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