Hinalintulad ni Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria "Joma" Sison si President Rodrigo Duterte nitong Martes na "cowardly gangster —a crazy guy in power."
"Duterte is a brutal guy who likes to intimidate people and impress people that he is a strong man, he is capable of violence," saad nito , "This is a coward who has gotten to power and he doesn't know how to handle that power." dagdag nito.
"He cannot handle it decently, and in a statesmanlike — You have a butangero in power for the first time in Philippine history, you have a wild guy, crazy guy in power," Sison added.
Earlier, Sison branded Duterte an impulsive leader who employed a "no read, no write" policy when it came to peace negotiations, as he supposedly refused to read extensive documents and write formally "except to make short, punitive declarations."
Sinabi rin ni Sison that Duterte canceled peace talks to make communist groups a handy "scapegoat" in case he wished to take extreme measures to push through with his Charter change (Cha-cha) for federalism.
"The principal interest of Duterte in killing the peace negotiations is to use the names of the CPP and the NPA [New People's Army] as scapegoats in order to be able to declare martial law or a state of emergency as he would need it. He would need it before pushing Cha-cha," Sison said.
"That is the responsibility of the one refusing. It is Duterte's responsibility that he has terminated or killed the peace negotiations, and he wants to kill the peace process since from its very start in 1992 with the Hague joint declaration," Sison said.
"He has some evil purpose, a malicious purpose in terminating [the talks]. The NDF would let him go down in Philippine history as the one who terminated the peace process,"dagdag pa nito.
Duterte terminated negotiations with with communist rebels in November 2017 and declared the CPP-NPA a terrorist group a month after NDFP leaders claimed that the president sabotaged the peace talks.
Ngunit nag babala si Sison that localized talks won't work as local NPA units na irereject ito.