The Communist Party of the Philippines on 7 October painted a “horrid image” of the 2022 Elections saying “It is becoming crystal clear how it will be used to perpetuate the Duterte clique in power and pave the way for the Marcoses’ return to Malacañang.”
The 2022 elections, the CPP said, will be held “under the fascist tyranny of Duterte” who is desperate to remain in power. He will use the hundreds of billions of pesos in government infrastructure funds to be granted to politicians in exchange for their loyalty. He has ordered the military and police to harass politicians who refuse to bow to his power. Duterte will surely be able to manipulate the election results, said the CPP, given that majority of Commission on Election officials are Duterte appointees and the delivery of the ballots will be done by a company owned by Dennis Uy, “a known Duterte crony.”
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr, the dictator’s son, has already filed his candidacy for the Presidency. Also running for President is Ronald dela Rosa, chief implementer of Duterte’s murderous ‘war on drugs’. Bong Go, Duterte’s loyal aide, is Gen. dela Rosa’s Vice Presidential candidate. Meanwhile, the Duterte camp is still anticipating the entry of daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio into the presidential or vice presidential race.
The CPP said, “It is correct for the people to use the upcoming elections as a battleground to fight the Duterte tyranny and the return of the Marcoses… The broadest and largest possible united front must be brought together to frustrate the devious scheme of the Dutertes and Marcoses to place the country under their dual reign.”
Commenting on the upcoming 2022 Elections, Prof. Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant said, “By all indications, the Duterte ruling clique will rig the 2022 presidential elections as it did in the 2019 midterm elections… The tyrant wants the election of a new president who will prevent his arrest upon the warrant of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity or upon the warrant of the courts of his own government whose Senate is now exposing his grave crimes of corruption.”
Prof. Sison revealed that Duterte “has not yet dropped completely the option of doing away with the 2022 elections.” He said the Filipino people should be called upon to be vigilant and militant against the possibility that Duterte “would use either terrorist acts of his own making or the pandemic as pretext to declare a nationwide martial law or a presidential pseudo-revolutionary government, postpone the elections indefinitely and rule by decree as Marcos did in 1972.”