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Saturday, February 07, 2004
Congressional bets to pay P.5M campaign fee
COMMUNIST guerillas in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) announced that they will collect a P500,000 permit-to-campaign (PTC) fee from each congressional candidate, who wishes to conduct campaign sorties in guerilla zones within the region.
But the Agustin Begnalen Command of the mainstream Communist Party of the Philippines - New Peoples Army claimed that only congressional and other local candidates, who have no anti-revolutionary records, will be allowed to do campaign sorties in NPA-infested areas.
Diego Wadagan, the command’s spokesman, on the other hand, said the P500,000 PTC for congressional candidates will be lowered depending on the economic status of each particular candidate.
The same command has yet to announce the amount that they plan to collect from candidates for governor, vice governor, provincial boardmember, mayor, vice mayor and councilor.
Like CPP spokesman Gregorio ‘Ka Roger’ Rosal, Wadagan also clarified that in Abra, "fees are collected depending on the economic capacity of the candidate."
He explained that the fees will be used "to fund activities and projects of the people’s revolutionary government, which will be beneficial to the people, especially to the peasant masses."
Wadagan also warned politicians from presenting fake PTCs to the rebels, saying that authentic PTCs will be issued by the Chadli Molintas Command and each PTC bears the signature of Martin Montana, on behalf of the CPP-NPA’s regional command.
He also warned civilians from posing as NPA cadres to take advantage of the May 2004 polls.
Recently, Wadagan warned politicians not to bring guns and private armed groups with them in NPA-controlled areas in the Cordilleras.
"Peace and order functions will be undertaken by the NPA, the people’s militia, the self-defense corps of the revolutionary mass organizations, and other groups and individuals authorized by the local people’s revolutionary government," Wadagan explained. HFP
(February 6, 2004 issue)
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