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By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 11, 2021 1:31pm There is no need to amend the party-list system under the 1987 Constitution to address the claim that some party-list organizations are supporting communist rebels, as this issue can be simply taken up with the Commission on Elections (Comelec). House Committee on Constitutional Amendments chair Alfredo Garbin Jr. made the remark on Monday after President Rodrigo Duterte supposedly wanted an amendment to the party-list system in the 1987 Constitution to help address the problem with communist rebellion. In a virtual interview with reporters, Garbin believes that the President s concern with party-list organizations is that some are allegedly being used by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People s Army (NPA) to espouse violence to bring down his administration. ....
Published January 8, 2021 5:31pm There are other ways to remove party-list groups with alleged links to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, New People’s Army (NPA) instead of amending the 1987 Constitution, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Friday. Lacson said taking the charter change route “might be too big a bite to take,” . . . “if indeed true that the President’s reason for reviving efforts to amend the charter is to abolish the party-list system, or at least directed at particular party-list list groups.” “When we open the valve to amend the Constitution, especially via a constituent assembly, nobody, not even the highest officials of the three branches of government can choose, much less assure which provisions may be amended or not,” he said in a message to reporters. ....
Published December 27, 2020 8:04am Supporters of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People s Army are shown in this photo holding a protest action on Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Monday, April 24, 2017. The CPP on Sat., Dec. 27, 2020 rejected the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Council to call the organization a terrorist group. Danny Pata/File photo The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Saturday rejected the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) to designate the organization, as well as its armed wing, the New People s Army (NPA), as terrorists. The designation by the ATC is a precursor for heightened fascist suppression against the broad democratic forces which are being red-baited and persecuted for fighting Duterte s tyrannical rule and schemes to perpetuate the Duterte political dynasty, said Marco Valbuena, information officer of the CPP, in a statement issued on Saturday. ....