Malacañang on Saturday dismissed as “pure nonsense” claims that President Rodrigo Duterte may have committed an impeachable offense by releasing a so-called narcolist of 46 politicians with only 58 days to the May 13 elections. In other words, it’s pure nonsense,” presidential spokesperson and chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo said. IncompleteADVERTISEMENTBut for Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison, the list released by the President was incomplete. Harder to catch“It is a policy of the people’s democratic government and New People’s Army (NPA) to capture, try and punish drug lords and their cohorts,” Sison said. But he said “drug lords are harder to catch and are heavily protected so the NPA rarely has the chance to capture them.”“The guards of drug lords are not just private armies but also policemen,” Sison added.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 16, 2019 23:03 UTC