NOT MARGINALIZED.
Members of Anakbayan and League of Filipino Students stages a rally outside
Akbayan senatoriable Risa Hontiveros' press conference. Photo by Karlos Manlupig
Members of militant youth organizations Anakbayan and League of Filipino Students staged a protest outside the press conference of Akbayan senatorial candidate Risa Hontiveros in Davao on Wednesday, November 21. Visiting the city a day after the Commission on Elections allowed the participation of Akbayan in the 2013 elections, Hontiveros said she welcomed the decision. But members of Anakbayan-Southern Mindanao slammed the Comelec verdict as a “ridiculous pro-Aquino administration decision that would further bastardize the partylist system." After holding a protest rally outside the restaurant where Hontiveros was holding her press conference, the protesters attempted to block her van after she left the building through a backdoor. Both groups have been engaged in a word war, which reached fever pitch after members of Anakbayan stormed into Akbayan's press conference in Manila in October. Anakbayan-Southern Mindanao spokesperson Cherry Orendain said Akbayan cannot claim to be marginalized or underrepresented because its leaders hold key positions in the government..... Anakbayan is a national democratic youth organization known to be one of the founding organizations of the two-termer Kabataan Partylist.
http://www.rappler.com/nation/16545-akbayan-vs-anakbayan-in-davao
Anakbayan and the League of Filipino Students (LFS) are both CPP youth/student front organizations that comprise the constituency of the Kabataan (Youth) party-list political party. CPP front groups are not happy about the COMELEC decision to allow the rival leftist Akbayan to participate in the 2013 elections. CPP fronts will probably continue to mount to propaganda attacks vs. Akbayan.
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