PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte should reopen peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) to avoid his “direction” to hell, exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Jose Maria “Joma” Sison said on Sunday.

Sison was reacting to a speech by Duterte at the PDP-Laban miting de avance in Pasig City on Saturday night in which he said that he would be “happy” to go with the communist leader “hand in hand to the mouths of hell.”