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Retired military general Antonio Parlade Jr. and his supporters trooped to the EDSA People Power Monument on Tuesday to propose the establishment of a revolutionary government supposedly to address government corruption.
Acting presidential spokesperson and Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - The push of retired military officer and former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson Antonio Parlade Jr. for a revolutionary government is part of free speech, Malacanang said Tuesday. Acting presidential spokesperson and Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar made this remark after Parlade called for support against corruption in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and other government agencies, saying a revolutionary government may be the only solution. "Retired General Antonio Parlade's call for a revolutionary government is part of his guaranteed freedom of speech and expression," Andanar said in a press statement. He also echoed Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana's statement directing members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to disregard Parlade's call for a revolutionary gove
Dennis Denora, a Sun.Star reporter and publisher of the Trends and Times community paper, has been shot dead by unidentified killers, according to the Davao chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
Denora was killed near the wet market of Panabo City in Davao Del Norte on Thursday afternoon, NUJP Davao says.
The Davao del Norte Press & Radio-TV Club says in a statement that is is angered and saddened by news of the killing.
"His death awakens the anger and pains of journalists who do their job and yet are being judged by the pistol," the group also says.
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