Rodrigo Duterte, the presumptive Philippine president, will offer a Cabinet position to the exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison, who led an armed rebellion against the state.
As Duterte seeks to build confidence in his presidency before his swearing in on June 30, he said the posts of Labor, Environment, Agrarian Reform and Social Welfare Departments will be offered to the Communist Party, which has been fighting a guerrilla war since its founding in the late 1960s. “Those are the only departments that I can concede to them,” Duterte said at a televised briefing from Davao City on Monday.
