MANILA, May 14 -- A ranking official of the National Security Council (NSC) on Wednesday called on the Bayan Muna party-list to stop blaming the government for its defeat in the May 12 midterm elections.

"Bayan Muna has no one (to) blame for its electoral defeat in the past (two) party-list elections but itself," NSC Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya said in a message to reporters.

Instead of blaming the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for its election woes, Malaya said Bayan Muna should do a "self-reflection" on what it did wrong and why it has lost significant public support in the past election cycles.

"What is clear is that the usual sloganeering or propaganda no longer works and that ...