A few days before and after the reactionary midterm elections on May 12, National Democratic Front (NDF) allied organizations conducted operation “pinta” (paint) and postering (or “OP-OD” to activists) to expose its rottenness. The main message in the OP-ODs asserts the revolution as the real solution to genuine social change to the country, not the reactionary election.

The groups called on the youth and the people to go to the countryside and join the New People’s Army (NPA) to serve as Red commanders and fighters. According to them, the recently concluded election further exposed the bankruptcy and fallacy of this so-called “democratic process.”

The groups further explained that electronic fraud and other types of anomalies became very evident to favor the representatives of landlords, the comprador bourgeoisie, and the imperialist US. They asserted that the 2025 midterm election was one of the dirtiest elections since the system was automated in 2010.

Kabataang Makabayan (KM) chapters led the OP-OD at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) on the Sta. Mesa campus and in the province of Quezon.

At the University of the Philippines (UP)-Los Baños, KM and the Artista at Manunulat ng Sambayanan (Armas) chapter in Southern Tagalog conducted the OP-OD twice. The paintings and posters sparked discussions among administrators and students of UPLB, which was their aim.

In Baguio City, KM-Demokratiko a Tignayan kadagiti Agtutubo iti Kordilyera (KM-Datako) and Armas jointly conducted the OP-OD on the streets and walls of the city.

In Rizal, the KM provincial chapter joined NDF-Rizal for the OP-OD. They launched it in the towns of Taytay and Angono on May 28. They posted a large image of Comrade Kathryn as a symbol of the youth who took up arms to achieve genuine democracy and freedom for the country.

The League of Science for the People (LAB) led the OP-OD at the UP-Manila campus.

On May 25, Katipunan ng mga Samahan ng Manggagawa (Kasama-NDF) members also held an activity on Manila streets to call on the urban poor and workers to participate in the people’s war amid the intensifying crisis. The group hung banners and painted slogans.

“The further exposure of the rotten and corrupt system further clarifies to Filipinos that change will not come from promises of reactionary politicians and bureaucrat capitalists. Even as they challenge the electoral dominance of the people’s oppressors, they must set their sights on the path of resistance beyond the elections,” Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) information officer Marco Valbuena stated after the election.

He emphasized, “only by enduring the hardships and necessary sacrifices in waging people’s war, can the people change the course of Philippine history to attain their aspiration for national and social liberation.”