Vice President Sara Duterte, the country’s second highest public official, released a short statement, following Sison’s death: “May God have mercy on his soul.”
In a message to reporters, AFP spokesperson Colonel Medel Aguilar said that with Sison’s death, the CPP will “hopefully” make reforms “away from armed struggle.”
Aguilar said Sison’s death will also weaken the underground movement: “The loss of a ‘teacher’ and ‘guiding light’ leaves the organization with no purpose and clear direction. But the organization needs to have a good teacher and guiding light who will lead its members away from violence and destruction.”
Before he became a political refugee, he founded the Maoist CPP in 1969. Under the 1957 anti-subversion law, the CPP and any affiliation to it was illegal, but late former president Fidel V. Ramos repealed the law during his time as part of the peace talks with the NDF.Renato Reyes, secretary-general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, said Sison left two legacies: the exposition of society’s problems and a movement that will address them.
The progressive Makabayan bloc in a statement condoled with Sison’s family. The group, consisting of progressive party lists in Congress, called Sison a “patriot,” who stood with the Filipino people.
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