NDFP's Luis Jalandoni passes away at 90
Luis Jalandoni, senior political consultant and executive committee member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), has died at the age of 90, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) announced Saturday night.
The CPP said Jalandoni passed away at 9:05 a.m. in Utrecht, the Netherlands (3:05 p.m. Philippine time) on Saturday, ''surrounded by comrades, his wife Ka Coni, and his family.''
''The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines expresses its condolences to Ka Louie's family, whose love, strength, and support accompanied him through decades of service to the Filipino people's revolutionary cause,'' it said.
Jalandoni previously served as chief negotiator of the NDFP, the CPP's political wing, in the negotiations with the government aimed at ending the decades-old communist insurgency in the Philippines.
Before the Duterte administration left in June 2022, Jalandoni was designated a terrorist, along with five suspected CPP members, by the Anti-Terrorism Council.
The designation, however, did not stop the succeeding Marcos administration from opening the door for negotiations again.
In November 2023, Jalandoni said that a "substantive agenda that can provide concrete benefits for the people, keeping in mind always that the roots of the armed conflict must be resolved," should be pursued.
'The road to a long and lasting peace is long. The journey will be challenging; the final destination will not be easy to reach. But we have to traverse that path because the people want and deserve it,' Jalandoni had said. —VBL, GMA Integrated News
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