Pres. Duterte appoints Parlade as new deputy director general of Nat’l Security Council

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has designated retired Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as the new deputy director-general of the National Security Council (NSC), Malacanang said on Thursday, Sept. 9 Parlade, the former spokesperson of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), has already retired from the military on July 26 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56. He was serving as the Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) […]