REJECT MARCOS-DUTERTE! RESIST AGAINST TYRANNY!
May 9, 2022
Malaya Movement USA Statement on the Election Partial Results
The Malaya Movement USA strongly rejects Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte-Carpio. We condemn the widespread, deliberate and systematic effort to disenfranchise voters. We call on the people to resist the Marcos-Duterte tandem. Strengthen our unity and fight for genuine change!
COMELEC’s orchestrated disaster
What we have witnessed in the past 24 hours and the past month is the clear failure of the Commission on Election (COMELEC) to ensure that Filipinos are able to exercise their right to vote peacefully and properly.
The election preparations are already riddled with questionable dealings right from the start. First the appointment of Duterte allies in the COMELEC and the granting of elections logistics to Duterte crony Dennis Uy, with a massive ₱535.99 million contract.
What followed is a disastrous conduct of the general elections with the late delivery of ballots, massive disenfranchisement, massive failures of Vote Counting Machines. Not to mention the widespread vote buying, harassment and other maneuvers. We demand an immediate and independent investigation of COMELEC and its conduct of the elections.
Marcos & Duterte as the biggest enemy of the Filipino people
Now we are faced with the possibility of the return of the Marcoses in power and the continuation of the tyrannical rule of the Dutertes. This unholy alliance has been denounced and rejected by the Filipino people as we’ve seen in the widespread grassroots support for the opposition candidates, with millions taking to the streets in the lead up to May 9.
The Marcoses had set their sights on returning to Malacanang ever since their forceful removal back in 1986 People Power. They have used the ill-gotten wealth to manipulate and carry forward historical revisionism throughout the archipelago. They found partners-in-crime in the rabid Duterte clan. The Dutertes have paved the way for this return through its erosion of our democratic institutions, state policy of terror against dissenters and culture of impunity.
Marcos and Duterte, clearly, are the biggest enemy of the Filipino people and all those who stand for democracy, human rights and sovereignty.
Call to action: We must resist!
We must brace ourselves for more difficult days ahead. A Marcos-Duterte rule spells more disaster for the Philippines and more suffering for the Filipino people. Let us reject Marcos and Duterte’s rule. Let us strengthen and deepen the people’s unity and the people’s movement for change. The arena of struggle has now shifted away from the precincts and into the streets. It is now in the people’s hands to turn the electoral movement into a political movement against the Marcos Duterte rule and the broken political system.
