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Leftist group says Mike D will become a poor loser in May 07 polls

The activist fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Saturday has it first fearless forecast on the outcome of the May 2007 elections when it said that administration senatorial bet, Michael Defensor will be one of the poor losers in next year’s electoral derby.

“This second rate, trying hard political puppet of President Arroyo will suffer much at the electoral box-office. This is a fearless forecast based on political facts and figures and running sentiment of the people against the ruling mafia in Malacañang,” Pamalakaya information officer Gerry Albert Corpuz said in a press statement.

Corpuz, one of the initiators of Dekada 80, a group of 80s activists said the batch of activists in this period where Secretary Defensor belongs will not endorse his senatorial bid in the May 2007 elections.

Defensor, a one time an activist in the late 80s and early 90s, was the national president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), a national alliance of student councils across the country.

Dekada 80 and NUSP had previously denounced and disowned Defensor over his controversial positions on a number of equally controversial issues like Presidential Proclamation 1017 and the subsequent arrest of six militant party lists from Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela and the spate of political killings across the cross the country.

“Rejection becomes him. His association with the illegitimate and criminal regime of President Arroyo is a kiss of death. That’s history’s verdict to him,” Corpuz added. Secretary Defensor was the only senatorial candidate that belongs to the administration. He is ranked between 20th to 25th among the present senatorial wannabes according to latest surveys conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia Inc.

President Arroyo endorsed the candidacy of Defensor, chief of the Presidential Management Staff and former secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The Chief Executive announced the senatorial bid of Defensor during a dinner with Northern Luzon governors and mayors at the Mansion House in Baguio City Wednesday last week.

“Mike is running for senator and please help him,” Defensor quoted the President during her dinner meeting with local officials led by Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson.

Pamalakaya has a pending graft case against him before the Office of the Ombudsman for allowing the resumption of Lafayette Philippines Incorporated in Rapu-Rapu, Albay and the oil and gas exploration activities in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape separating the island provinces of Cebu and Negros.

As former DENR Secretary, at the height of Quezon landslides in 2005 as triggered by massive illegal logging, Defensor had accused members of Pamalakaya in Aurora and Quezon of aiding big time illegal loggers in 2005, by towing illegally cut logs through the Umiray River using Pamalakaya members’ non-motorized bancas, which the group vehemently denied.

“Defensor is the female version of President Arroyo. He’s as bad as his principal and he does not deserve the mandate of people wanting genuine change and reforms,” Pamalakaya said. #

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