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Esperon’s pitch for Palparan to run in Congress
has Palace backing, leftists say

The leftwing fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and the militant party list group Anakpawis on Monday said the endorsement of the planned candidacy of retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan to run either as party list representative or congressman of Misamis Oriental by no less than Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has the blessings of Malacañang.

“Only persons with cruel intentions and criminal minds can do it. Malacañang security officials and the AFP Chief of Staff belongs to this category,” said Pamalakaya national chair and Anakpawis nominee Fernando Hicap in reaction to Esperon’s endorsement of Palparan’s bid for congressional seat in the May 14, 2007 elections.

Esperon on Sunday said he was rooting for Palparan in his bid for a seat in Congress so that the retired officer accused by leftwing activists behind hundreds of cases of extra-judicial killings could continue his fight against the communists on common ground.

“Esperon has one thing in mind when he endorsed Palparan’s ambitious political plan. He wants to tell all military officers and ordinary soldiers that if you kill a lot of people associated with the Left, you will be given full honors and support in whatever path you choose after retiring in military service. This is diabolical if not super evil,” Hicap said.

The AFP chief said if Palparan runs for Congress, he could gun for party list representation. Esperon said Palparan will be able to fight party lists that are connected and supporting the New People’s Army, which he said was good for the military.

The Anakpawis nominee said Esperon’s statement was a tall order for the military to perform cheating and other forms of electoral fraud to ensure the congressional bid of Palparan.

“We will not take Esperon’s statement at face value that the military will remain non-partisan especially in the case of “The Butcher”. Esperon is a certified criminal, an election fraud operator and a rabid anti-left political animal who would do anything, everything to attack us up to the point of endorsing Palparan’s congressional bid to the public,” Hicap said.

Pamalakaya and Anakpawis party list said Palparan might run as the no.1 nominee of the anti-communist group Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) or other Palace-backed party list groups like Aksyon Sambayanan (AKSA), a sister party list group of Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PDSP) identified with National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales.

Both groups believed that the political plan of Palparan to run for a seat in Congress in May 14, 2007 elections has the blessings of the Cabinet Oversight Committee composed of Gonzalez, Esperon, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. “Since Malacañang has having a hard time where to deploy Palparan, they might have decided to field him as no.1 candidate of a Palace funded party list group,” Pamalakaya and Anakpawis party list added.

Palparan was consistently named in the report of the Melo Commission as one of the principal suspects in the spate of political killings of leftwing activists by state security forces.

Leftwing and human rights groups attributed over 800 cases of extra-judicial killings to Palparan and top commanders of the AFP, which the military and Malacañang had persistently denied despite the recommendations of the government panel to investigate and bring Palparan and top military officials to bar of justice over charges of political murders of leftist activists and journalists. #

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