The first to profit from this Yudhoyono legacy was Prabowo Subianto. Soeharto's former son-in-law and a leading general in his military. Dismissed Marcus Mietzner from the Armed Forces in 1998 for the kidnapping of pro-democracy activists Prabowo channelled his bitterness over his dismissal into a ferocious populist campaign for the presidency. He had been unsuccessful in 2004, he failed when to secure Golkar's nomination, and in 2009, when he was only vice-presidential candidate to Megawati Sukarnoputri. However, 2014 seemed to be his year between 2010 and early 2013, Prabowo topped most of the opinion Yudhoyono's presidential succession. His radical rhetoric, which condemned Indonesia's democracy as corrupt, exploited by foreigners and beyond repair, resonated with many voters who had grown wary of Yudhoyono's leadership. In the legislative elections of April 2014, Prabowo's party Gerindra (Gerakan Indonesia Raya, Great Indonesia Movemen) more than doubled its 2009 result to 11.8 per cent, making it Indonesia's third-largest party (see Table 1). In order to be nominated for the presidential elections in July, however, Prabowo needed a coalition of parties that had achieved either 20 per cent of the seats or 25 per cent of the votes in the preceding parliamentary polls. He had no problems in getting this coalition together. He ultimately controlled an alliance that held 63 per cent of the seats in Parliament.