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Bakrie urged to step down
Happy man: Flanked by two senior Golkar Party members, Akbar Tandjung (left) and Ginanjar Kartasasmita (right), Aburizal Bakrie (center), the chairman of the Golkar Party as decided in a national meeting in Bali in November 2014, expresses his enthusiasm during the opening ceremony of his camp's national leaders meeting at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday
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Happy man: Flanked by two senior Golkar Party members, Akbar Tandjung (left) and Ginanjar Kartasasmita (right), Aburizal Bakrie (center), the chairman of the Golkar Party as decided in a national meeting in Bali in November 2014, expresses his enthusiasm during the opening ceremony of his camp's national leaders meeting at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday. (Tempo) (left) and Ginanjar Kartasasmita (right), Aburizal Bakrie (center), the chairman of the Golkar Party as decided in a national meeting in Bali in November 2014, expresses his enthusiasm during the opening ceremony of his camp's national leaders meeting at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday. (Tempo)
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span class="caption" style="width: 618px;">Happy man: Flanked by two senior Golkar Party members, Akbar Tandjung (left) and Ginanjar Kartasasmita (right), Aburizal Bakrie (center), the chairman of the Golkar Party as decided in a national meeting in Bali in November 2014, expresses his enthusiasm during the opening ceremony of his camp's national leaders meeting at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday. (Tempo)
The North Sumatra executive board (DPD) of the Golkar Party leadership formed in a national meeting (Munas) in Bali in November 2014, has called on the party chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, to step down in order to ensure the legitimacy of an extraordinary national meeting (Munaslub) to select a new party chairman.
DPD North Sumatra secretary Sodrul Fuad said that his party constituents rejected an idea to organize an extraordinary national meeting. He further said that the Aburizal-led Golkar Party would not be able to hold either a Munas or a Munaslub because it could happen only if it was supported by two-thirds of the provincial executive boards across the country.
'If we look at the party's internal bylaws and rules of association, a national meeting or an extraordinary national meeting can only happen only if Bang Ical (Bakrie) steps down,' Sodrul said during a discussion held during Commission A, which tackled organization-related matters at the party's national leaders meeting (Rapimnas) at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday.
The Commission was tasked to discuss the possibility of holding either a Munas or a Munaslub, in which they will select a new party chairman.
On Sunday, 34 provincial executive boards and 10 Golkar-affiliated organizations conveyed their stance.
Of the total, 13 votes were in favor of organizing of a Munaslub, 16 rejected a Munaslub, seven left the matter to the Golkar Party's central executive board, three left the decision in Bakrie's hands, as the party chairman, and five said they would follow any decision made during the Rapimnas.
Those provincial executive boards whom rejected the Munaslub are from Aceh, Bali, Bengkulu, Central Sulawesi, Jakarta, Jambi, Lampung, North Sumatra, Papua, Southeast Sulawesi and West Java.
On Monday, provincial executive boards from several other provinces, such as East Java and West Kalimantan, also voiced their rejection with regard to the organizing of a Munaslub. Only the South Sumatra executive board were bold in their support of the Bakrie camp's request to hold a Munaslub. (ebf)
