This is because the public is increasingly losing faith in the party’s ability to eradicate corruption and bring about clean governance, with the emergence of several cases implicating former party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin and public communication chief Andi Nurpati.
The party, founded by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not even eight years old yet, but won a spectacular victory in the 2009 legislative elections — securing 20.8 percent of the ballot and 148 parliamentary seats — as well as the glorious achievement of winning the presidential election in one round. But this was apparently the peak of the golden era of the Democratic Party.
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