TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Andi Taufan Tiro, a lawmaker from the National Mandate Party (PAN) is facing removal following his involvement in a corruption case surrounding the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry.
PAN deputy chairman Mulfachri Harahap said that his party continued to monitor Andi’s legal process. Mulfachri added that PAN had not yet prepared Andi’s replacement.
“If he was proven guilty, I think there are only two options for him: resign, which is more respectable, or being fired,” Mulfachri said on Saturday, April 30, 2016.
Mulfachri revealed that Andi had considered resigning from PAN, although no court verdict yet had been issued.
“I will invite him to discuss his future in PAN,” Mulfachri added.
Yandri Susanti, PAN faction secretary at the House of Representatives, earlier revealed that Andi might resign from the House.
“He said that he would resign from the faction. We’re still waiting for the decision,” Yandri said at the Senayan Parliament Complex on Friday, April 28, 2016.
Yandri explained that Andi preferred to resign instead of being sacked from the PAN Faction at the House.
Andi, along with Amran Mustary, head of national highway construction agency in the Maluku region, was named as a suspect on April 27, 2016. Both of them allegedly received Rp 7 billion (US$530,000) from PT Windu Tunggal Utama president director to grease road construction projects in Maluku and North Maluku.
YOHANES PASKALIS