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Palparan, linked by his critics to extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in his areas of command, said he wants to guard national security through legislation. He filed his certificate of acceptance around 4 p.m. Bantay party-list supports efforts to fight the communist rebels and fronts. It is a Samar-based group composed of of rebel returnees who are doing community work in communist stronghold. Palparan said he met the officers of Bantay when he was assigned in Samar to fight the New People's Army. "If others are there (in Congress) that are not supposed to be there, why not me?," he said during the Quijano de Manila media forum. Palparan has alleged that some party-list groups, such as Bayan Muna, are CPP-NPA fronts. The retired general said he will represent "marginalized people engaged in security activities," including former communist rebels and "barangay defensive groups" whom he credited with helping him in his counter-insurgency campaign while he was still in active military service.] The former military officer said he thinks he can do more in Congress for people who, he said, have been aggrieved by communist rebels. "As a civilian, I can't do anything. It would be very limited. It's the people who want me to be there. We have to listen to the people," he said. Palparan said that he is unfazed by the recent Social Weather Stations survey that ranked left-wing Bayan Muna as the top party-list group. Bayan Muna became even more popular with the recent arrest and detention of its Representative, Satur Ocampo, over a more than two-decades-old case that alleged he was involved in the bloody purge of communist rebels in Leyte in the 1980s. "The survey will change," said Palaparan, who added that he considers displacing Bayan Muna as the most favored party-list as a major challenge. A party-list group's top nominee gains a seat in Congress if it gets 2 percent of votes cast for such groups. The second and third nominees gain seats at 4 percent and 6 percent of votes, respectively. Each party-list group can have a maximum of three seats. - GMANews.TV
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