LEGAZPI CITY: The communist insurgents operating in Bicol are allegedly imposing a P.5 million “permit-to-campaign fee” to local politicians running in the May 2016 national elections, Chief Supt. Agosto Marquez, PNP regional director in Bicol said.

“The New People’s Army, whose members are now used as private armed groups, is imposing P500,000 ‘permit-to-campaign’ fee on local politicians running for the congressional post in Bicol,” Marquez said in an interview with DZGB radio station here.