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Local candidates are “coordinating and cooperating” with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and are “not coerced” to pay the so-called Permit to Campaign (PTC) in areas influenced by the revolutionary movement. This was the newest statement of the rebel group amid violence committed against some local bets campaigning in areas that CPP’s armed unit, the New People’s Army (NPA), claim as their “territories” in Mindanao. For politicians who fail to follow the policies of the revolutionary movement, however, they would face military enforcement from the NPA, the CPP said. Maj Gen Jose Mabanta, chief of the military’s 3rd Infantry Division, earlier divulged that half of the political contenders in his area are buying protection from the NPA.
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