Sison: Duterte likely to be ousted by mid-2019MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte would likely be ousted rather than ending the decades-long insurgency of communist rebels, exiled Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria "Joma" Sison said. Sison made this statement in reaction to Duterte's latest remarks that the communist movement will be over by next year. "It is more likely that Duterte would be ousted from power than that he could destroy the people´s revolutionary movement by the middle of next year," Sison said Wednesday. Sison also called Duterte "delusional" for making such claims of having destroyed the entire revolutionary movement by the middle of 2019. "The people consider Duterte a clown who imagines that he has all the money to give jobs and houses to the millions of people who participate in the revolutionary movement," Sison said.

Source: Philippine Star September 19, 2018 02:26 UTC