Soon-to-be seated president Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesperson Peter Tiu Laviña blasted ‘leftist groups’ in a social media post earlier today. “A mistake not corrected becomes an error. A mistake may not be intentional, but to commit the same could be fatal,” Laviña said. He said that these leftist groups should bring down dreams closer to reality.
“Leftist groups have rejected the hands of friendship and cooperation by the incoming Duterte administration by mouthing their usual criticism of others but not undertaking their own criticism, self-criticism,” he added.
He said the the leftist groups, without naming an exact group, made a “error in reading the national situation and made a grave one in pulsing the mood of our people.” He said the group claiming to be patriotic supported a presidential candidate who once pledged allegiance to US.
“They did it in 1985 and did it again in the 2016 election. They boycotted the election in 1986 and went with another candidate 30 years later. For groups that claim that they are patriotic, nationalist and anti-imperialist, many were aghast in their decision to go with someone who abandoned our country and once pledged allegiance to the US,” the spokesperson said.
He added that more grounded leftist units in Mindanao “did not go with the selfish, myopic and opportunist posturing of its national higher organs.” “In their desire to push one of their national officials to be senator, they rush to a hasty decision rejecting calls to wait for the maturing of the political situation before deciding,” Laviña said.
“Having done these mistakes, they want to continue with their old ways of critiquing, critiquing, critiquing. I am truly sorry for these leftist groups which will be left out in the march of history with their dogma and belligerent styles and methods of work,” he added.
“They need to right their wrongs and stop becoming roadblocks to genuine change. They should bring down their utopian dreams closer to reality. Sustained gains even little by little here and there to advance the cause of the masses are better than none at all. To perpetuate the sufferings of the masses is treasonous, a betrayal to serve them,” he said. “Their ways of pressuring others with the barrel of the gun and noise by the minority are now passe.”
He then gave an unsolicited advice to the said leftist groups. “Dialogue with the incoming government instead of mounting black propaganda to be heard. And listen to your units in Mindanao. Otherwise, you will be proving to be yet another bunch of trapos,” he said.
http://www.update.ph/2016/05/duterte-spokesperson-blasts-leftist-groups-bring-down-dreams-closer-to-reality/5654
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