Angeles City, Pampanga – A Binay presidency will use the policies of former President Fidel V. Ramos’ administration as its template in achieving peace with secessionist and communist groups. Senator Gringo Honasan, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) standard-bearer Vice President Jejomar C. Binay’s running mate in the May 9 elections, bared this to Manila-based reporters. “What’s the formula for peace? To me, it should be a clear sense of long-term policy. We should have a comprehensive, national long-term peace policy that addresses the root causes,” said Honasan, who Binay is eyeing as his “crime czar.” When it comes to national peace policies, the senator claimed that those implemented by former President Ramos resulted in “six years of uninterrupted political stability”and a “tiger economy.” NUC study At the heart of the Ramos administration’s peacekeeping efforts is a study titled “Six paths to peace.” It was created by the National Unification Commission (NUC), [...]
