PHMANILA, Philippines – Senator Bato dela Rosa said on Wednesday, June 4, that he was the source of the draft Senate resolution seeking to dismiss Vice President You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.‘s impeachment case.
“That’s my own initiative. Galing lang ‘yan sa akin,” Dela Rosa told reporters when asked about the source of the purported Senate resolution. He added that the Vice President was unaware that his office was drafting the document.
Dela Rosa claimed there were at least three different drafts of a Senate resolution seeking the dismissal of the impeachment case but did not provide specific details. Earlier on Wednesday, Senator Imee Marcos also said she had seen three different draft resolutions with the same purpose.
The purported draft Senate resolution argues that the Senate had violated the Constitution by failing to act on the impeachment articles when they were transmitted to the upper chamber on February 5 — the Senate’s last session day before Congress went on a three-month recess.
The House of Representatives You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. the Vice President on the same day, after 215 lawmakers fast-tracked a fourth impeachment complaint through a resolution.
Dela Rosa said the Senate resolution could be taken up next week after incorporating input from other senators. But it’s also possible that this could be discussed in the plenary on Wednesday, the last session day of the week.
The senator, a staunch Duterte ally, said that even if his resolution fails to gain enough support, he is proud to have taken a stand on the matter. During the campaign, the reelected senator had promised to block the impeachment of the Vice President.
“Whether or not makakuha ako ng supporta ng majority, I am confident that I make a stand as far as this issue is concerned,” he said.
Minority Leader Koko Pimentel, a lawyer, said that upon seeing the document, he thought it was unreal because it contained “flawed logic.”
“Big chance not authentic. Even the quotation of the constitutional provision is not accurate,” Pimentel said, without citing which part in the document was inaccurate.
Dela Rosa, for their part, said that the draft Senate resolution was prepared and researched thoroughly by his office’s legislative unit. “May kanya-kanya tayong opinyon. Pinag-aralan,” he said. (We each have our own opinions. It has been studied.)
ML Representative-elect Leila de Lima, who has been chosen as a member of the prosecution team in the impeachment trial, said the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. before it can dismiss the impeachment complaint.
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