Ducielle Cardema
Ducielle Marie Suarez Cardema is a Filipino politician. She has served as the representative for Duterte Youth from 2020 to 2022.
Her career in the House of Representative is marked by initiatives to counter the New People's Army rebellion with Cardema often alleged to have committed red-tagging on groups suspected to be sympathetic to the communist rebels.
Political career
Duterte Youth representative (2020–2022)
The Duterte Youth won a seat as partylist organization in the 2019 election. Her husband Ronald Cardema atempting to fill the seat after Ducielle and three other nominees supposedly withdrew. However as youth organizations are required to be 25 to 30 years old at election day, her then-34 year old husband was disqualified. Ducielle Cardema, the original first nominee was eventually allowed to take oath.On October 13, 2020, Ducielle Cardema was took a seat for Duterte Youth in the House of Representatives until June 2022.
As a congresswoman, Cardema focused on fighting the New People's Army rebellion and was accused of committing red-tagging, alleging groups of association with communist rebels. She has also sought to revive the Anti-Subversion Act of 1957, through House Bill 8231 which would ban again the triumviate of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People's Army and the National Democratic Front and includes provisions for livelihood aid for communist rebels who wished to be reintegrated to mainstream society.