BARELY two months before the May 2022 elections, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed there was a conspiracy between the communist insurgents and progressive party-list groups to "end this government."

In his taped Talk to the People aired late Tuesday night, Duterte urged the public not to vote for party-list groups Kabataan, Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, and Gabriela, or the so-called "KABAG," which he said are "legal fronts" of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

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