MARZUKI Alie is accused of jumping ahead of everyone else at a time when the Democrat Party is in trouble. When public attention is on party chairman Anas Urbaningrum, Marzuki sends a message which somehow manages to reach party patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The message said that the leadership’s management was no longer effective after the exposure of scandals involving M. Nazaruddin, the former party treasurer.

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