Senate panel seeks probe of solon, 7 others over recruitment of minors
Updated @ 10:13 p.m., Oct. 2,2019
“One of the allegations established during the Committee hearings was the connection between the student activists and the Kabataan Partylist,” the report said.
While recognizing the role of the party-list system as a vehicle to voice sentiments, opinions and beliefs in the mainstream of policy-making, the joint panel also pointed the many criticisms against it.
One of which, the report said, is the allegation that some party-list organizations are communist fronts.
“Is this mere coincidence that the complaints of the mothers of the missing minors presented in this Report involve some party-list groups that were mentioned in the news as linked with the CPP-NPA?” the joint panel asked.
CPP-NPA stands for the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army.
“Given this glaring reality, how do we secure the young people from their affiliations with these left-leaning party-list organizations and their revolutionary influences?”
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