RP Communists to boycott polls

Sat, 27 Dec 1997, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Philippine Communist guerrillas will boycott
next year's elections but are open to "cooperation" with parties
helping to determine President Fidel Ramos' successor, a rebel
leader said yesterday.

"The revolutionary government has its own government and the
upcoming polls are the political exercise of the other
government," Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose
Maria Sison said over radio station DZRH.

"In principle we should not involve ourselves in the
elections, meaning no members will participate in the process,"
he said in an interview from exile in the Netherlands.

However Sison added: "If there are parties and candidates who
are willing to talk with us they are welcome to talk with us in
any manner of cooperation that they want to achieve."

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