MANILA, Philippines – Tumangging magkomento si House Majority Leader at Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Sandro Marcos sa desisyon ng House justice committee na ideklarang insufficient in substance ang impeachment complaints laban sa kanyang amang si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Sa panayam, sinabi ni Sandro na wala siyang moral authority para magsalita patungkol dito.
“As I said in my previous statement, I am not the right party or I have no moral authority to be discussing anything with the impeachment of the President given my familial relation with him,” sinabi ng mambabatas.
“Let’s leave it up to the wisdom of the Justice Committee and the other members of the House to comment on that. But as far as I am concerned, I think it’s best for me not to comment,” dagdag ni Sandro.
Noong nakaraang buwan, matatandaan na sinabi ni Marcos na hindi siya lalahok sa deliberasyon ng impeachment complaints na inihain laban sa kanyang ama upang mapreserba ang integridad ng Kamara.
Nitong Miyerkules, Pebrero 4 ay ibinasura ng House justice panel ang dalawang impeachment complaints laban sa Pangulo dahil sa pagiging insufficient in substance.
Ipinagtanggol naman ni House justice panel chairperson at Batangas 2nd District Rep. Gerville Luistro ang desisyon ng panel at sinabing ang mga mambabatas ay dapat na tumutok sa katotohanan at hindi sa konklusyon na ginawa ng mga complainant.
“It is the decision of the majority of the members of the Justice Committee that the standard of sufficiency in substance was not met. A complaint is sufficient in substance if there is a recital of facts that constitute an offense demonstrative of the jurisdiction of the Justice Committee. Simply stated, the allegations of facts must constitute an impeachable offense,” ani Luistro.
Ipinunto pa niya na ang mga alegasyon sa reklamo “are not facts or are not the overt acts that we are expecting to be written in an impeachment complaint, meaning those acts executed by the impeachable official.”
“We need to link that with violation of the Constitution or other impeachable offenses. We cannot accept mere conclusions such as corruption or that he received so much money when these are based on not authenticated or not attested videos,” dagdag pa nito.
“If we are not able to establish the connection between the two, the allegation of facts and the restrictive enumeration of impeachable grounds, then it will fail in the test of sufficiency in substance.”
Samantala, kasunod ng dismissal ng mga reklamo ay hinimok ng Malakanyang ang publiko na magpatuloy na sa buhay. RNT/JGC
