MADRID Dec. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, has once again disassociated himself from the complaint filed before the House of Representatives by social groups to try to remove the Vice President, Sara Duterte, for, among other things, death threats against him, according to a statement from the Presidency.
“The complaint presented in the House of Representatives by several private citizens is clearly an independent initiative of the complainants and its approval is the prerogative of any member of the House,” said the executive secretary, Lucas Bersamin.
In that sense, “the president has nothing to do with her”, as he has already made clear “unequivocally” in previous statements, and “will not support” the impeachment process, Bersamin has stressed in a statement from the Presidency published this Tuesday.
Bersamin refers to the president’s words over the weekend, who wondered in a media interview how this helped Filipinos. “This is not important (…) Why waste time on this?” he questioned.
The Philippine president assured that the impeachment process “will take up all the time” of the congressmen without doing “anything” to improve the lives of Filipinos.
The complaint, filed by civil society groups and collectives of victims of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, alleges that the vice president has used the office as “a platform for violent rhetoric, personal enrichment and impunity.”
The House, controlled by Marcos’ allies, has two weeks to rule before the complaint passes to the Senate, which has the exclusive authority to judge and decide on these cases, but could run into difficulties a few months before the midterm elections. May mandate.
Barely two years after they won the elections, Duterte’s relationship with Marcos has completely broken down. The daughter of the former Philippine president claimed in late November that she had hired someone to kill Marcos, his wife and House Speaker Martin Romualdez in case she was assassinated.
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