Ayon sa EO No. 70 na pinirmahan ni Duterte noong 2018, itinatag ang NTF-ELCAC sa ilalim ng Office of the President, hindi ng AFP, para tulungan ang mga komunidad na nanganganib dahil sa armadong-tunggalian.
“Hindi na rin ako editor sa Philstar.com. Nagbitiw ako noong Hunyo at ang huling araw ko ay Hulyo 24, kaya walang batayan para ikonekta ako sa kuwento - na isang lehitimong istorya, sa anumang kaso," sabi ni Jonathan De Santos, kasalukuyang tagapangulo ng National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
“I am also no longer an editor at Philstar.com. I resigned in June and my last day was July 24, so there is no basis to connect me to the story – which was a legitimate story, in any case – at all,” said Jonathan De Santos, the incumbent chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
Jonathan De Santos of PhilStar.com was never a member of the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Si Jonathan De Santos ay hindi kailanman naging miyembro ng CPP-NPA-NDF.
Ito sinabi ng Korte Suprema sa Zarate vs. Aquino noong 2015: Ang “pagmimiyembro lamang sa mga organisasyon o sektor” na binanggit sa kaso – kasama ang mga progresibong grupong Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Karapatan, at Bayan Muna – ay “hindi maaaring itumbas ng aktwal na banta na mangangailangan ng iisyu ng writ of amparo.”
This is at least the second time that Lorraine Badoy misled information about the 2015 Supreme Court ruling.
Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy, concurrent spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), claimed once again without basis that Vice President Leni Robredo “colluded” with the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People’s Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and select party-list groups in the May elections.
Pinabulaanan ng abogadong si Barry Gutierrez, tagapagsalita ni Robredo, ang mga akusasyon ni Badoy, at sinabing ang mga ito ay "malinaw at ganap na kasinungalingan," at “pinabulaanan nang paulit-ulit."
The claims were based on the conjectures by a reporter in soliciting a reaction from three presidential candidates.
