(Eagle News)—-Davao Mayor Sara Duterte said the regional political party she created was “set to create alliances with other groups to help each other.” The Davao mayor, who is also the Hukbong ng Pagbabago chair, said, however, that HNP was engaged in talk with “local parties” and not national ones. She said it would be a “difficult decision to go national and I am not ready to decide on it right now.” She said “even […]
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Bong Go: Duterte to call for meeting of PDP-Laban leaders to address party “infighting”
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will call for a caucus of the leaders of PDP-Laban following factions in the ruling party. Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said in a radio interview that all these members, after all, had enabled Duterte to secure the presidency. Go made the comment a day after the group led by Willy Talag, chair of the membership committee of PDP-Laban-National Capital Region, “elected” its own set of leaders. The “election” took […]
China party journal editor hangs himself
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The deputy editor of the Chinese Communist party’s top theoretical journal has committed suicide, reports said, sending speculation swirling over political infighting, freedom of thought and corruption. Zhu Tiezhi, 56, a well-known essayist on party theories and the deputy editor-in-chief of Qiushi — ‘Seeking Truth’ — hanged himself in the magazine’s garage, Chinese media said. Citing an unnamed friend, Chinese media group Caixin said he had been depressed by ideological disputes […]





