President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night predicted that the communist rebellion would end by the middle of next year, a forecast immediately dismissed by the insurgents. ADVERTISEMENT“I think, if God will have mercy, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) will be over by the second quarter of next year. In a statement posted on his Facebook account on Wednesday, Sison described the President as “delusional.”The President, he said, would more likely be ousted from office than succeed in ending the CPP-NPA insurgency by 2019. Public discontentADVERTISEMENTThe President admits to taking fentanyl, which some experts said may be potentially addictive, to relieve body pains caused by a motorcycle accident a few years ago. He cited the efforts of the 5th ID in convincing some 100 members of the NPA to surrender recently.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 19, 2018 21:22 UTC