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 for a

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Tayag co-founded, along with Jose Maria Sison and others, the

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youth group '' Kabataang Makabayan'' ("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 Benito Tiamzon, Jesus Lava and other

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personalities at the Youth Rehabilitation Center in Fort Bonifacio, and later declaring support for the incumbent president

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

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. After being released from prison, Tayag undertook

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studies in the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independiente (ICFI) National Seminary at Batac, 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 (, KBL), formerly named the New Society Movement of United Nationalists, Liberals, et cetera (, KBLNNL), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political party in the Philippines. It was first formed in 1978 as an umbrel ...

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

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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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