PH defense chief to recommend cancellation of peace talks
DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana will recommend the termination of the peace negotiations with the communist insurgents after finding out that they would rather work to oust President Rodrigo Duterte.
In a statement late Sunday, Lorenzana cited eight reasons why he would suggest to Duterte to have the peace talks scrapped.
One of those reasons, Lorenzana said, was the plan to oust the President, which was allegedly discussed during the “largest” second People’s Congress that the
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines held from October to November 2016 and at the Central Committee Plenum in December 2016.
During these times, Lorenzana said there was a declared unilateral ceasefire that lasted until January 2017.
“During these two occasions, [the communists]crafted a three-year plan to advance the revolutionary movement that included the plan for the Oust Duterte Movement if PRRD will not agree to a coalition government,” the Defense chief said, using the initials of the President.
He said that the recommendation is yet to be raised to the President.
Lorenzana also blamed the four appointees of Duterte from the Left, who had betrayed the government.
The four appointees from the communist side were Judy Taguiwalo, former secretary of social welfare and development; Rafael Mariano, former secretary of agrarian reform; Terry Ridon, former commissioner of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor; and Liza Maza, head of the National Anti-Poverty Commission.
“They betrayed the government when they used their positions to advance the CPP’s revolutionary movement,” Lorenzana claimed. DEMPSEY REYES
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