UNDESIRABLES. Members of progressive groups in Davao City laud the resolution of the City Council declaring partylist representatives Jovito Palparan, Jr. and Jun Alcover personae non gratae for allegedly "ruining the city’s good reputation on peace and order." Palparan has earned the moniker ‘the Butcher’ among progressive groups for the extrajudicial killings of political activists in the places where he had been assigned. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)