MANILA, Philippines — Gabriela Partylist filed Monday its manifestation of intent to participate in the May 2022 elections “as an act of defiance” to the disqualification plea filed against them by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
House Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas filed the manifestation at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on International Working Women’s Day.
“We are actively campaigning against the NTF-ELCAC’s disqualification case, particularly its claim that we are ‘advocating violence’, as we are well aware that it would set the pretext for wholesale proscription of members of Gabriela Women’s Party…
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