LUCENA CITY – Exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte was “delusional” and “pipe dreaming” by claiming that government would finish off the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels by next year. “Duterte is delusional by claiming that he shall have destroyed the CPP-NPA and the entire revolutionary movement of the people by the middle of next year,” Sison said in an online interview from Utrecht, Netherlands. ADVERTISEMENTSison said Duterte was “taking too much of fentanyl. ADVERTISEMENTIn its official news organ, Ang Bayan, issued early this month, the CPP mocked Duterte’s failure to fulfill his earlier vow to crush the NPA before the end of this year. “Duterte will fail in his ambition to crush the NPA because he is extremely isolated from the Filipino people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 19, 2018 01:18 UTC