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Bacolod City, Philippines Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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staging protest
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Alliance for Rural Concerns - Negros Occidental chapter will hold a protest in front of the Commission on Elections provincial office in Bacolod City 10 a.m. today, Joel Alapar, its vice president for the Visayas, said yesterday.

The ARC, one of the partylist groups disqualified by the COMELEC, is one with those who want the cleansing of the list of those led by millionaires and traditional politicians, Alapar said.

Such pseudo partylist groups put into mockery the partylist system, he said, but added that, the disqualification of the ARC for not representing the marginalized sector is ridiculous and sheer stupidity.

He said ARC is a multi-sectoral coalition of marginalized sectors of farmers, farm workers, urban poor, fisher folk and the Bangsa moro people.

“The Brilliantes and COMELEC decision to exclude ARC from the list of accredited partylist groups was for us a pure act of insanity or something born out of senility,” Alapar claimed.

ARC is calling on the COMELEC to reconsider its decision and restore ARC to the list of accredited partylist groups, he said.

“We are also appealing to the COMELEC to act carefully in its cleansing effort so that poor represented and marginalized groups will not be indiscriminately barred,” he added.*CPG

 

 

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