“Duterte never gets tired of repetitively terminating the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations,” said Jose Maria Sison, National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political adviser, in a statement.

National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison dismissed government’s latest declaration terminating the peace talks, saying President Rodrigo Duterte has already done so last year.

At the same time, the regime is finding itself in an increasingly difficult position, economically, politically, and internationally. The introduction of the TRAIN law, a package of regressive taxation that significantly increases the prices of goods, particularly fuel, has sparked major protests throughout the country.

President Duterte lashed at Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison for calling him a bully

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday threatened to kill Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison if the government’s proposed peace talks with the Left fail.

“Duterte is obsessed with establishing a fascist dictatorship a la (Ferdinand Marcos Sr.), his political idol, whose extrajudicial killings of around 3,500 over 14 years of autocratic rule he has already surpassed several times in only two years,” Sison said.

ILPS in solidarity with Turgut Kaya, journalist and political prisoner

Ultimately, the collapse of the GRP-NDFP Peace Talks is the Duterte regimes’s own doing and so will be the failure of its localized peace talks scheme.