Joma Sison died of heart failure, says NDFP exec

FILE PHOTO: Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

LUCENA CITY — Days after his demise, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on Tuesday said that Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison died due to “heart failure.”

“The cause of death was heart failure, after almost three weeks of hospital treatment,” Luis Jalandoni, a member of the NDFP national council, disclosed in an online interview from Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Tuesday morning.

Jalandoni did not provide further details of Sison’s death.

Earlier, Ang Bayan, the CPP news outlet, announced that Sison died in a hospital in Utrecht on Friday, December 16, at 8:40 p.m., Philippine time.

READ: CPP founder Joma Sison dies at 83

Sison has lived in self-exile in Europe ever since peace talks with the government bogged down in 1987.

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