The five factions making up the former guerrilla front were earlier reported to be split over whether to agree to this.

"You can't say this guerrilla front is good and this one is bad."

But, he added, the Marxist-led guerrilla front supports the peace talks.

The collaboration of some guerrilla fronts with the drug trade became the central plank of Government propaganda campaigns against them.

In previous elections, the guerrilla front told its supporters not to vote at all.

It maintains active guerrilla fronts throughout the Philippines until today and is still considered by the military as the main threat to national security.

The guerrilla front says that is exactly what it wants to do.

There they forged an uncomfortable alliance with the guerrilla military front.

"I don't think that repect for human rights will result from talks" with the guerrilla front, he said.

Cuba has been a supplier of the Salvadoran guerrilla front.