Joma Sison said that NDFP is Ready to Accept Duterte’s Offer of Cabinet Posts

17 May Joma Sison said that NDFP is Ready to Accept Duterte’s Offer of Cabinet Posts

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Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said that the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is more than ready to accept Duterte’s offer of cabinet posts.

“The NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) and CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines) welcome the magnanimous offers of President-elect Duterte of Cabinet positions,” Sison said.

It was on Monday, May 16, that Duterte offered NDFP nominees to chair the 4 available departments under his administration. These are the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Sison said about the appointees that are set to hold these departments as “persons who are not necessarily communists, but they have to be patriotic and progressive.”

NDFP has also created a committee to create a pool of deserving candidates to hold these departments. Sison said that the committee is tasked to “choose persons who are people-oriented, competent, honest, and diligent for recommendation to government positions.”

He also added, “They will study the offers most seriously and will decide how they can help in the best possible appointments while the peace negotiations are moving forward.”

Lastly, he said, “They can be appointed by Duterte as soon as needed, irrespective of the rate of progress in the peace negotiations.”

NDFP is the political wing of the CPP while the New People’s Army (NPA) is CPP’s armed wing.

Joma Sison is Duterte’s professor in the Lyceum University in the 1960s. He is now in the Netherlands and has been out of the country since 1987 as he seeking an asylum as a political refugee.

Sison is hoping to revive the peace talks that has long been stalled, and he also wants to end his exile under Duterte’s stint as the next President of the Philippines.