Military blamed for Bayan Muna’s decline

Neri Colmenares, a nominee of the partylist group Bayan Muna, said that the military’s campaign against his group was to blame for its decline in the elections. �We were No. 1 for a short time, then we weren�t able to get into the top slot again. This is the first time that this has happened to us,� he told the Inquirer. Earlier, the military admitted that it indeed was campaigning “vigorously” against Bayan Muna, which it perceives as a communist front. Many of the victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines are members of Bayan Muna.