Despite Democratic Endorsement, SBY Spares No Praise for Prabowo; “If you lead, you will have to lead everyone, including those who didn’t vote for you,” Yudhoyono said. “A leader should not keep his anger and grudges.”

July 7, 2014 Leave a comment

Despite Democratic Endorsement, SBY Spares No Praise for Prabowo

By Ezra Sihite & Carlos Paat on 04:03 pm Jul 05, 2014

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, meets with presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto at Yudhoyono’s private residence in Cikea, Bogor, on July 4, 2014. (Antara Photo/Setpres-Abror Rizki)

  1.  President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his coalition team on Friday evening at Yudhoyono’s house in Bogor.

“I received a letter from the Prabowo-Hatta campaign team saying they wanted to meet me,” Yudhoyono said at his residence in the Cikeas neighborhood. “It was directed to me as an individual, not as the president, so it was right and legal for me to meet them.”

The meeting was filmed by local TV stations, as President Yudhoyono said he wanted the encounter to be open to the public.

Read more at http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/despite-democratic-endorsement-sby-spares-praise-prabowo/

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