Opposition Senator Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal confirmed later that day that she had met with leaders of the CPP in the Netherlands.
The opposition and the CPP are looking to form a political alliance to bring down the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Netherlands-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison, in a 1997 file photo. AFP/ANP photo via Yahoo News.
On Monday, opposition groups filed a new impeachment reqest against the president on grounds that she cheated in the last election and has committed numerous abuses. A similar move last year fell far from achieving the necessary votes.
If an alliance with the CPP is formed, it will be a first in the history of the communist party whose leadership fled the country after failed peace talks in the late 1980s.
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