March 3, 2022/Kodao.org
Jose Maria Sison, National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant, said Leody de Guzman is the best among the candidates in the May 2022 presidential elections.
In a tweet on Thursday, March 3, Sison praised de Guzman’s candidacy and said he wishes the labor leader the best.
“Despite his lack of financial resources, he is the best of the presidential candidates in the 2022 elections,” Sison wrote on his Twitter account.
“Whatever is the outcome of his electoral campaign, he advances the just cause of the Filipino people in the struggle for national and social liberation,” one of the country’s most prominent political personalities added.
Sison was reacting to de Guzman’s answer to a media interview on what he thinks of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) co-founder who had been labelled as so-called terrorist by the Philippine government.
“I believe he is a revolutionary, not a terrorist,” de Guzman told One PH program “’Wag Po!” on Tuesday evening.
“If the issue is that he’s called a terrorist, not for me. My view of him is that Joma Sison is a revolutionary individual,” the candidate added.
Sison thanked de Guzman for defending him against the “false charge of terrorism.”
“For making his statement below, he is a principled and courageous political leader from the working class,” Sison said.
De Guzman is the presidential candidate most open to resuming formal peace negotiations with the NDFP, saying he had been espousing many of the same advocacies as those who were forced by social injustices to take up arms.
He also repeatedly said he does not consider the CPP, the New People’s Army and the NDFP as terrorist organizations.
“We should begin with an honest-to-goodness recognition they are not terrorists. We should acknowledge that their issues are legitimate,” he said.
If elected, de Guzman said his administration shall try to overturn the social system that makes rich people richer and the poor poorer. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)
In a supplemental Twit, in reaction to several comments, Professor Sison stated the following: (Editors – Pinoy Abrod)
“Leody is best presidential candidate because he has best patriotic and progressive program. But Leni is far more winnable and will be able to fight best together with the people against the certain electoral fraud and terrorism that Duterte will do to make his chosen succesor win.”