Nilo Tayag is a Filipino

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, social

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, and

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. Contrary to popular belief, Tayag is not from the

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, but rather from an offshoot church of the aforementioned. He is an advocate of a

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Tayag co-founded, along with

Jose Maria Sison Jose Maria Canlas Sison (February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known by his nickname Joma, was a Filipino writer and activist who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy – which w ...

and others, the

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youth group ''

Kabataang Makabayan Kabataang Makabayan ("Patriotic Youth"), also known by the acronym KM, is an underground communist youth organization in the Philippines which was active from 1964 to 1975. It was banned by the Philippine government in 1972 when then- President ...

'' ("Patriotic Youth") in 1964, which became the nucleus of the established

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in 1968, and served as its Central Committee member. He was the group's national chairman until he was arrested on June 11, 1970 in Barrio Concepcion,

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. Detained along with

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, Jesus Lava and other

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personalities at the Youth Rehabilitation Center in

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, and later declaring support for the incumbent president

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...

, he was released in 1981 or 1982 after pleading guilty to the charge of

subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy A hierarchy (from ...

. After being released from prison, Tayag undertook

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studies in the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independiente (ICFI) National Seminary at

Batac Batac, officially the City of Batac ( ilo, Siudad ti Batac; fil, Lungsod ng Batac), is a 5th class component city in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 55,484 people. Etymology The w ...

, Ilocos Norte (a splinter group from the

). In 1987, he ran for the

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under the UPP- KBL ticket but lost. After losing the election, in January 1988, Tayag and other Marcos loyalists declared their exit from the

Kilusang Bagong Lipunan The New Society Movement ( fil, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, KBL), formerly named the New Society Movement of United Nationalists, Liberals, et cetera ( fil, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa, KBLNNL), is a r ...

party to form a new party called the Loyalist Party of the Philippines (LPP), of which Tayag was co-vice president with Pacifico de Leon. In 1989, his Church ordained him a priest, and by 1993 consecrated him as a bishop. He was a prominent supporter of

Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Roa Duterte (, ; born March 28, 1945), also known as Digong, Rody, and by the initials DU30 and PRRD, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He is the chairperson ...

during the latter's campaign for the Presidency and is a founding member of the "Democratic Front for Filipinism" and "Kilusang Pilipinismo", groups supporting Duterte's " revolution against illegal drugs, the oligarchs and the exploiters of the Filipino masses." Tayag is a member of the UP Alpha Sigma Fraternity, Philippine Guardians Brotherhood Inc., and

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