Fired By Gerindra, M. Taufik: We Are Open-minded

M Taufik/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Mohamad Taufik has opened his voice over his dismissal as a cadre by the Gerindra Party Honorary Council. Taufik admitted that he accepted the decision gracefully.

"If you have been fired, we will accept it graciously, with grace. Hopefully we will meet again in one battle," Taufik said at a press conference in the Central Jakarta area, Tuesday, June 7.

Taufik also expressed his gratitude to the party led by Prabowo Subianto. He apologized if he had let the party down.

"I would like to thank Gerindra for raising me. Sorry if my journey has not reached the expected expectations," said Taufik.

After being expelled from the Gerindra Party, Taufik admitted that he was increasingly determined to leave his position as a member of the DKI Jakarta DPRD. After that, Taufik will join the NasDem Party.

"If we are fired from a party, then the DPRD will automatically stop because the condition is that DPRD members are members of a political party. Even though I can remain a member of the council, I will not do it. Then, if I want to shift, move to NasDem, a party whose orientation is nationalism ," he said.

The Party Honorary Council previously dismissed M Taufik as a Gerindra Party cadre today, Tuesday, June 7. The dismissal was the result of the Gerindra MKP trial which was held today. The chairperson of the trial, Wihadi Wiyanto, explained that this dismissal was the legal stance of the Gerindra Party Honorary Council towards M Taufik, not only because of his actions and statements in the national news media which were busy in recent days. Rather, it is a fairly long series of processes from the accumulation of mistakes and violations that have been carried out by Taufik as a Gerindra Party cadre, starting from the 2019 presidential election.

"M Taufik as a cadre of the Gerindra Party and in his position as a leadership element in the management of the DKI Jakarta Gerindra DPD, as well as at the DKI Jakarta DPRD from the Gerindra faction in fact has failed to carry out the party's mandate related to the loss of votes for the Prabowo-Sandi pair in DKI Jakarta in the 2019 Presidential Election. Then, Wihadi continued, M Taufik is often mentioned in corruption cases (Tipikor) within the DKI government. In addition, until now the Gerindra DPD DKI Jakarta does not yet have a permanent office as the Gerindra Party DPD DPD in other areas. "In fact, DKI Jakarta is the main barometer for the Gerindra Party," said Wihadi.

Wihadi said that during the examination under oath at the trial by the panel regarding the violations committed, M Taufik had given convoluted information. "Then at this point in fact it has been proven, that everything he said at the previous examination was not true and was a lie," he said.

Regarding the violation of AD/ART, Wihadi said, Taufik has also been proven to have committed acts that are contrary to and not in line with the direction of the Gerindra Party's policy. That is, he has violated his oath as a Gerindra Party cadre who decided to submit and obey the party's ideology and discipline and to maintain the honor, dignity and cohesiveness of the party.

"Brother M Taufik as a cadre of the Gerindra Party, is known to have given many statements or statements in the national news media related to his replacement as deputy chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD," he said. "Even though it is known that many of his statements are not true and have cornered the Gerindra Party, and have even made a commotion in people's lives and within the Gerindra Party internally," continued Wihadi.