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PHILIPPINES: Capitalist Villar is CPP's bet in 2010 presidential election

LBG/ARCS | 30.12.2009 05:49 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

After trying to come on board the Noynoy-Mar’s Liberal Party, Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza went forum shopping until they landed in the lap of corrupt bureaucrat capitalist Manuel Villar Jr.’s presidential bid.







Two days before its 41st founding anniversary, the clandestine Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) endorsed the candidacy of Manuel Villar Jr, the standard-bearer of the Nacionalista Party (NP) in the 2010 presidential elections.

The party, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968, said in a statement issued on Wednesday that among the four major presidential candidates in next year's polls, Villar "seems to be the most patriotic and progressive."

The CPP praised Villar for advocating the interest of Filipino businessmen, expressing sympathy for workers and peasants, and condemning human rights violations.

The party, however, doubts that Villar will win in the 2010 race against his "major political rivals who have bloodstained records of opposing the demands of the workers and peasants."

Leftist party-list representatives Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna and Liza Maza of Gabriela are guest senatorial candidates of Villar's party.

Meanwhile, the CPP, which heads the broad revolutionary front organization, the National Democratic Front, criticized other presidential candidates.

It slighted Liberal Party standard-bearer Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III for his supposed links to the Hacienda Luisita "notoriety."

It also accused administration party bet Gilberto Teodoro Jr of being a "mad dog" of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Likewise, the party assailed former President Joseph Estrada for having a "bellicose record during his failed presidency."

According to the CPP, only the Makabayan, a coalition of progressive groups and formations, appears to promote “people’s demand for national independence and genuine democracy."

It criticized major political parties and coalitions vying for offices in the 2010 elections for allegedly "avoid(ing) or even oppos(ing) the people's demand for national independence and genuine democracy..."

The CPP added that the said groups "do not criticize and repudiate free market globalization and the US-instigated policy of terror against the people." - LBG/ARCS

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From the Nacionalista Party official website (Frequebtly Asked Questions):

 http://www.nacionalistaparty.com/faq.html

Q: Are the Nacionalistas pro-administration or opposition?

A: The Nacionalista Party is part of a coalition supportive of the present administration (of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo). However, true to its character of independence, there are members of Congress who belong to the minority, and even positions taken by its leaders which may, at times, run counter to the dictates of Malacañang.

LBG/ARCS

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It is not true that Villar is the CPP's candidate.

30.12.2009 21:52

The Implication that the CPP's candidate is Villar is not true. The communist party of the Phillipines as an alliance of the workers, peasants and students, the vast majority of the people of the Phillipines. It has a programe for independence as socialism and is opposed to the Rule by foreign imperialism. It is opposed to the stationing of foreign troops in the Phillipines, and in that it therefore upholds the Phillipino constitution, which states that foreign troops are not allowed to be stationed in the Phillipines. In the comming 2010 bourgeois elections, which fronts the stationing of foreign U.S. Imperialist troops in the country. The CPP is opposed completely to the fraud of bourgeois elections. It uses every and all methods necessary to resist the foreign control of the Phillipine government. Should the pro-imperialist puppets, forced on the people, be allowed by imperialism to win. The CPP will use the method of the 'Peoples War' to resolve the imposed fraud of bourgeois elections and foreign control over the well being of the people, plants and animals. Independence and freedom is most precious, especially from U.S. military control as they are the largest pushers of pollution dictatorship globally.

Quatro

The CPP's endorsement of billionaire Manny Villar

31.12.2009 03:46

“Among the four major presidential candidates, former Senate president Villar seems to be the most patriotic and progressive insofar as he advocates the interests of Filipino businessmen, expresses sympathy for the workers and peasants and condemns human rights violations. However, it remains to be seen whether he can win and prove himself any better than his major political rivals who have bloodstained records of opposing the demands of the workers and peasants, like Aquino of Hacienda Luisita notoriety, Teodoro of being the mad dog defense secretary of Arroyo and Estrada of having a bellicose record during his failed presidency.”

- CPP

Quote from Strive to make a great advance in the People’s War for New Democracy
Central Committee
Communist Party of the Philippines
December 26, 2009

Sad but True