THE progessive peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today vowed “to deliver one million “organized peasant vote” for the party-list group Anakpawis and three million votes for Makabayan coalition senatorial candidate Teddy Casiño.” The peasant group also warned President Aquino that using the administration’s “electoral fraud machineries” against progressives will “hound the presidency for the rest of his term.”
The KMP made the announcement during the consecutive Miting de Avance of Anakpawis party-list at Liwasang Bonifacio and Casiño’s at Plaza Miranda.
KMP secretary general Antonio Flores said “our more than 1 million members in KMP’s 15 regional and 66 provincial chapters will ink the peasant vote on May 13 for Anakpawis.”
“Anakpawis’s track record speaks for itself. It is the genuine and only party-list who fearlessly fought for the free distribution of lands to landless tillers in filing the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill inside the landlord-dominated Congress,” says Flores. “Anakpawis is the only party-list that seeks the return of the multi-billion coco levy funds to 3.5 million small coconut farmers.”
The top three nominees of Anakpawis party-list are fisherfolk leader Fernando Hicap of Pamalakaya, trade union leader Joel Maglunsod of Kilusang Mayo Uno, and peasant leader Randall Echanis of KMP.
“At the same time,” Flores said, “the Filipino peasantry is set to deliver three million votes for Teddy.”
Flores described the three million peasant vote for Teddy as “realistic” since it is only a 1:2 target ratio or one organized vote plus two additional votes.”
The KMP leader also warned the Aquino government’s electoral fraud machineries against targeting Anakpawis and Casiño.
“Aquino and his electoral fraud machineries inside the military and the Commission on Elections itself are the biggest stumbling blocks for Anakpawis and Teddy’s electoral victory. Massive and brazen electoral fraud and violence aimed against progressives along with Aquino’s inability to address the peasantry’s demand for genuine land reform will hound Aquino for the rest of his term,” Flores said.