Jump-Start Politics
Even though Yudhoyono has ‘secured’ Anas Urbaningrum’s position in the party, an extraordinary congress could derail all plans. Political opponents are working to uncover the misdeed of their party chairman, reopening the issue of money politics during the party’s congress last year.
July 20, 2011
THE ‘Nazaruddin Disclosures’ have jogged the memory of Democrat Party administrator Rahmad Hasibuan. He now recalls that money was given to participants of the party’s congress in Bandung last year. “Nazaruddin’s claims are true,” said Rahmad, who heads the forestry affairs department in the party’s central executive board. The Democrats emerged as a winner in the 2009 legislative election.
Muhammad Nazaruddin, the party’s former
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