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00:00Former Senator Laila de Lima is hoping that the investigation of the International Criminal Court against former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:07will be carried out on the war on drugs.
00:09Delima also answered the question if he is ready to forgive the former President.
00:14We have the first news from Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:20Even though her criminal cases were trashed under the administration of Marcos,
00:25former Senator Laila de Lima is still one of the opposition's opponents.
00:30As a speaker of the Liberal Party,
00:33she said that the party has no plans to ally with the current administration.
00:39Because you were free during the time when the President was President Marcos,
00:46are you willing to ally with the administration?
00:50As part of the Liberal Party, we don't have that plan.
00:54We are not talking about that.
00:57If we are talking about that, our position is that no.
01:01We will not ally with them because we are an opposition.
01:07So the Liberal Party has no plans as a party to coalesce with the BBM administration
01:15for purposes of the 2025 elections.
01:20That is the position of the Liberal Party at the moment.
01:24I cannot say whether that position can change.
01:28According to Delima, they have positions that are in line with the position of the Marcos administration
01:34such as the pursuit of protection of the territory of the Philippines.
01:38But they will continue to oppose if necessary.
01:42China WPS, we support the position of the BBM administration
01:48asserting all the way our sovereign rights.
01:53They have a good transparency strategy.
01:56If there are issues that are in line with the vision, why not?
02:03That is why we are not like that.
02:06We don't want to choose between the Marcos bloc or the Duterte's bloc.
02:14Again, we want to engage in the issues.
02:20Under the Marcos administration,
02:22Delima is hoping that the Duterte's case in the International Criminal Court will continue to be discussed
02:28and that he can go home for his imprisonment.
02:31We hope that the process in the ICC would result in the correct outcome.
02:40And the correct outcome, of course, would be the issuance of the warrant of arrest,
02:44eventual prosecution, and ultimately imprisonment.
02:50Delima is still fighting,
02:52but he admitted that in his seven years in prison,
02:55he sometimes felt weak inside.
02:57He was told that he was hostaged by a member of the terrorist group in 2022.
03:03According to the PNP, the three men escaped from the Custodial Center.
03:09When the authorities heard this,
03:11one of them ran to where Delima was being held.
03:15I stood my ground.
03:18Because I had to be mentally alert.
03:21Because if you're afraid,
03:24you won't be able to think properly.
03:28I was trying to appease him.
03:30But he was also suicidal.
03:36I told him, Lord, you take care of me,
03:41you take care of my family if something happens.
03:45But there was a point where I said,
03:47Lord, why is this happening?
03:49I sacrificed for so long,
03:51that was already more than six years.
03:55And then this is what will happen to me.
03:59I will just die here from a hostage-taking incident.
04:03In his desperation,
04:05he said that some friends seemed to leave him.
04:10He also shared some bad news.
04:15Including the time when he was separated from his family.
04:18When I heard about the death of relatives,
04:24friends,
04:25and then the death of Pinoy,
04:29and then of Sex Dinky,
04:32Solomon,
04:33I was really sad.
04:36When my son graduated from law,
04:39when he passed away,
04:41he didn't let me participate in his off-taking.
04:44He didn't let me give in.
04:46He donated the money for the writing
04:49and publishing of some books from prison.
04:52He also has time for prayer and meditation.
04:56He also fulfills his schedule
04:58and follows it so that there will be no negative thoughts.
05:03And one thing that helped him,
05:06was taking care of stray cats
05:08that reached the age of 20.
05:11There were two or three of them.
05:13One of them sat next to me in my tiny bed.
05:17A single bed.
05:18My favorite of the five,
05:20I brought them home.
05:21It's a good thing that there are cats.
05:23Because it's a big thing.
05:25They helped me overcome my sadness.
05:31The day has come when he can say that he is truly free.
05:35But are you ready to forgive Atty. Delima?
05:40I already forgave those witnesses.
05:45Those who worked for those witnesses.
05:48But when it came to President Duterte,
05:52I wasn't ready.
05:54At first, did he ask for forgiveness?
05:57He didn't do that.
06:00But I didn't know.
06:01So I've been praying for the grace
06:04that I can forgive him.
06:09But for now, not yet.
06:11This is the first news.
06:13Sandra Aguinaldo for GMA Integrated News.
06:34.