Quezon City Mayor Denies Declaring CPP-NPA-NDF Members Persona Non Grata
QUEZON CITY MAYOR – Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte denies that the city declared CPP-NPA-NDF members persona non grata.
The allegation came from a statement from Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año, according to a report from Inquirer.
Belmonte, in response to this, denies that the city issued such a declaration.
Año said in a statement that the city is one of the nine capital LGUs (local government units) that passed a resolution that members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) are not welcome in the cities.
The other LGUs mentioned by the Interior department are Navotas, Valenzuela, Pasig, Muntinlupa, Mandaluyong, Las Piñas, Caloocan and San Juan.
More than 1.5K LGUs in the entire country have declared that the members of the said faction were declared persona non grata, according to the DILG Secretary.
Based on the report, Belmonte clarified that the city of Quezon is an inclusive one.
“I make it clear every time that we are an inclusive city, where people are free to express their views, so long as we all follow the rule of law and behave ourselves accordingly.”
“Just spoke to Manny Borromeo our DILG local director, and he says nothing of this nature was said coming from the city level. He’s checking now with the DILG Central Office,”
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