A new opposition coalition on Sunday vowed to resist and oppose all efforts of the Duterte administration to enforce authoritarian rule.

During its first general assembly held at the University of the Philippines’ Bahay ng Alumni, the Laban ng Masa coalition pledged to combat the “fascist” moves of President Rodrigo Duterte, who, according to former Akbayan Party-list Rep. Walden Bello, one of the leaders of the group, is leading the country to an open dictatorship and fascist rule.

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