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GADON WANTS SC TO ACT ON DISBARMENT VS SARA

AFTER two months when he filed a disbarment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte before the Supreme Court, Presidential Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon broke his silence and criticized it for its alleged political bias.

“I don’t know what to say about our Supreme Court because it never lifts a finger, it never acts on the disbarment complaint I filed against the Vice President two months ago now.”

Although even before deciding to submit his disbarment complaint before the high tribunal, the anti-poverty czar said he already doubted that it would entertain his move.

”But since I still hold the Supreme Court in high regard, I pushed it (complaint) but as expected, it never even issued any notice,” he said.

In November last year, the anti-poverty presidential adviser, in a two-page letter-complaint, asked the high court to initiate a ‘motu proprio’ (from the Latin phrase which means ‘on his own impulse’, an official act taken without a formal request from another party) disbarment proceeding against Duterte.

He had expressed optimism that the high tribunal would similarly conduct a proceeding like what it did when it suspended him and eventually disbarred him under the motu proprio principle in 2023 over an uploaded video involving a reporter, which he said, he did not upload himself.

Gadon insisted that Duterte, a lawyer, must be disbarred over her conduct and actions that were ‘totally inappropriate’ in her position, being the country’s vice president.

”Her live press conference on zoom was on numerous social media platforms and has been seen by millions of Filipinos, reported on television, radio and newspapers and now has become general public knowledge that the Supreme Court may take judicial notice,” the letter-complaint said.

Except for two — Associate Justices Alfredo Benjamin Caguio and Marvic Leonen – Gadon said all the magistrates led by Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo were appointees of Sara’s father, ex-president Rodrigo Duterte.

”There is a political bias,” Gadon added.