While the Communist Party of the Philippines wishes to oust President Rodrigo Duterte, it does not conspire with opposition groups like Magdalo, its founder said September 12, 2018, denying earlier claims of the chief executive.

While the Communist Party of the Philippines wishes to oust President Rodrigo Duterte, it does not conspire with opposition groups like Magdalo, its founder said Wednesday, denying earlier claims of the chief executive.

“The tipping point can come time anytime between now and let’s say middle of next year, probably. That’s a good allowance of exerting efforts in order to oust Duterte,” Sison said in an interview over ABS-CBN News Channel on Wednesday morning.

President Duterte is simply "lying and bluffing" when he claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines is conniving with the Magdalo group, said CPP founding chairman Jose Maria Sison

“And I challenge him to present publicly what he claims as recorded conversations,” he said.

"He is simply not telling the truth when he says there already is conspiracy between CPP, Magdalo, and the Liberal Party. This is absolutely false... Walang nangyayaring pag-uusap. Imbento lang ni Duterte para palitawin ang galit ng masa," he said in a Skype interview with CNN Philippines.

Duterte earlier claimed that the communist rebels are in cahoots with opposition groups like Senator Antonio Trillanes IV's Magdalo and the Liberal Party, citing recordings provided to him by a foreign country “sympathetic” to him.

Sison added Duterte has shown he is worried to death and desperate as to imagine that he would be ousted next month.