The Standard - 2016 May 18 - Wednesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 95 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 WEDNESDAY : MAY 18, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

INC asks: Where did Marcos votes go?

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JOMA OFFERS TRUCE TO DUTERTE ADMIN By Joyce Pangco Pañares

COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison has offered an immediate mutual ceasefire with the incoming administration of Rodrigo Duterte as the leftists prepare to nominate members to join the new Cabinet. Sison said Fidel Agcaoili, chief negotiator of the National Democratic Front, was already in Davao to iron out details with the Duterte camp. “The CPP and NDF welcome the offer of the Cabinet posts from president-elect Duterte and thank him for showing trust and confidence. They will recommend the department secretaries who are motivated to serve the people, competent, honest and diligent. They are going to form a committee to scout and choose the nominees,” Sison told The Standard in an interview from Utrecht. He said he himself does not want any government position. Duterte earlier offered four Cabinet positions to the CPP, namely the departments of Agrarian Reform, Environment and Natural Resources, Labor and Employment, and Social Welfare and Development. Sison said the original plan was for Duterte, his former student at the Lyceum University, to go to Europe before his inauguration on June 30, after which the self-exiled communist leader would return to the Philippines. “But I don’t think Duterte has time to make that trip because he has so much work to do before his inauguration. Agcaoili is in Davao now to talk to Duterte,” he said. “Emissaries are now laying the ground for the resumption of the peace negotiations. The negotiating panels will meet to discuss the release of political prisoners, the implementation of an immediate mutual ceasefire, and the plan to accelerate Next page the peace negotiations,” Sison added.

Piñol, Panelo, Villar named to Cabinet By John Paolo Bencito A SPOKESMAN for incoming president Rodrigo Duterte confirmed Tuesday the addition of three more members of the new Cabinet. Duterte tapped former North Cotabato governor Emmanuel Piñol to lead the Agriculture Department and named Las Piñas Rep. Mark Villar as Public Works and Highways secretary, said spokesman Salvador Panelo. He also said former Bureau of Immigration chief Andrea Domingo would be tapped to head the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. Next page

Counter-offer. Communist Party of the Philippines head Jose Ma. Sison, shown in this file photo taken in Utrecht, The Netherlands, has

offered a mutual truce between communist rebels and the government of the Philippines, a day after president-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte announced that he was setting aside four Cabinet positions for nominees of the CPP.


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