THE seven-member Makabayan bloc pulled out of the “Super Majority” in the House of Representatives on Thursday, vowing to fight an emerging “new dictatorship” under President Rodrigo Duterte.

The leftist lawmakers told a news conference they would become an “independent bloc,” a decision reached by their National Executive Committee following “numerous disappointing decisions” by the President, such as the scuttling of peace talks with communist rebels.

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