Therefore, the party had finally taken the decision to fire Muhammad Nazaruddin as the party`s general treasurer, he said when announcing the decision at a press conference at the office of the Democrat Party Executive Board on Jalan Kramat VII here on Monday evening.
He said the decision was taken with a view to neutralizing the negative reports.
Speaking in the company of party Honors Council members EE Mangindaan and Jero Wacik, Amir said the decision was taken in a meeting of the council led by its chairman, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. who is also the president at Yudhoyono`s private residence in Puri Cikeas, Bogor, West Java, Monday morning.
The meeting was also attended by deputy chairman of the council, Anas Urbaningrum, who is also the party`s general chairman.
"The decision of the board is firing Muhammad Nazaruddin or suspend him from his post as general treasurer," Amir said.
Other points in the decision read out by Amir at the press conference were about alleged cases faced by Muhammad Nazaruddin which are linked to money and the state budget.
"If Muhammad Nazaruddin remains in his post as a general treasurer it will have a bad impact on the person concerned or the Democrat Party," he said.
Amir said if Muhammad Nazaruddin was not in the post any longer the negative reports from mass media would stop. "Therefore the advisory board fired him and relieved him from his pots as a general treasure," he said.
He said the advisory board hoped all parties concerned would respect the principles of presumption of innocence and legal institutions would process the legal case Nazaruddin had been accused of professionally. (*)
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Editor: Jafar M Sidik
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