of the moderate Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama. Despite the protests, Natakusumah and Kurtubi won the election and the two were installed as regent and deputy regent on 25 October 2005. Towards the end of his second term, Natakusumah decided to run as a candidate for the People's Representative Council in the 2009 elections. Natakusumah was elected and handed over his post to Kurtubi on 28 October 2009. In the midst of his term, Kurtubi decided to run as the candidate for the Regent of Pandeglang. Kurtubi picked Heryani Yuhana, the stepmother of Banten's governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah, as his running mate. Natakusumah's wife, Irna Narulita, also ran in this election. There were four other competitors in this election, but only Kurtubi and Narulita had the greatest influence among others. During the lead-up to the election, Kurtubi still retained his office as regent. Both Kurtubi and Narulita used their powers to influence the bureaucrats in the Pandeglang regional government. Kurtubi issued an instruction for civil servants in Pandeglang to vote for him, while Narulita's supporters in the bureaucracy distributed material assistance using her name. According to a civil servant who worked in Pandeglang, most of the civil servants supported Kurtubi as he could use government facilities and program as part of the campaign. Some civil servants who were removed from strategic posts by Kurtubi for supporting Narulita, attempted to sue him in the court. Kurtubi won the election with 43 percent of the votes, defeating Narulita who won 37 percent of the votes. However, Kurtubi's victory was short lived, as Narulita filed a electoral fraud case against him, citing Kurtubi's prior instruction to civil servants. Narulita requested a reelection, and the court fulfilled her request through a decision on 4 November 2010. About two weeks after the decision was released, Kurtubi resigned from his post as regent and was replaced by West Javanese government bureaucrat Asmudji H.W. Kurtubi managed to win the second election, this time with 49 percent of votes. Similar to before, Narulita attempted to dispute the results, but this time the court refused to accept her dispute and confirmed the results instead. Kurtubi was sworn in on 10 March 2011. Immediately after winning the election, Kurtubi appointed his civil servant supporters to strategic posts in the government, while removing Narulita's supporters from the bureaucracy and placed them in less important positions. For example, Pandeglang's secretary of agricultural and