PIA chief urges public to quiz candidates on ELCAC

DAVAO CITY, Feb. 5 (PIA)--- Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) program should be an election issue, Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Ramon L. Cualoping III said while projecting the possibility that “terror” may again reign should there be a shift to policy approach to peace and order.

Guesting at the latest edition of One Davao Presser, Cualoping said “peace may not prosper” and the gains reaped in ending the 5-decade insurgency problem “may go to waste if the next president will not continue the program.”

“It is true that the idea of ending local communist armed conflict is one of the greatest legacies of President Duterte. Peace and Order has always been at the forefront of the President’s agenda to give a comfortable life for all Filipinos. That’s why I really think this should be an election issue,” he said.

He urged electorates to ask their candidates on their stand regarding ELCAC, on the terrorist groups, about the Barangay Development Program (BDP), and “on this whole of government approach to finally end the long standing insurgency issue.”

ELCAC or Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict is a directive of President Rodrigo R. Duterte issued through Executive Order No. 70 applying a whole of nation approach involving all sectors of the society to end the more than 50 years insurgency in the Philippines.

Cualoping made it clear that ELCAC “is not about military operation” but it is about mobilizing the entire functionary of the government with other sectors, that now has born fruit as manifested by various forms of transformation of areas which were once laden with insurgency problem.

He cited areas which are not lit up with supply of electricity; areas which were once lairs of New People’s Army turning into tourism sites.

“Everyone watching , ask your president whether he or she pursues ELCAC on June 30,” he addressed viewers of One Davao Presser. (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)

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