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00:00Next, we will hear from the Senate and Congress about the major issues in the country

00:06like smuggling and abuse in aid of legislation.

00:12But why is this important and what will the public benefit from it?

00:17This is what Professor Antonio Contreras will tell us in Punto de Vista, Professor.

00:22Thank you very much, Dayan, and good morning to all of you in the studio.

00:33It has been a long time since Congress or the Senate or the House of Representatives

00:40established that there is a right to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation.

00:43Because their job is to make laws, and before they can make laws,

00:48they need to study the issue.

00:50Or they need to review the current laws to see what is lacking,

00:54is there a gap, is there anything that needs to be changed.

00:57And because of this, they need information.

01:00That is why they conduct an inquiry, to gather information.

01:07And it has been a long time since we accepted and established,

01:11even by the Supreme Court, that Congress has a right to cite contempt,

01:15especially those who are invited as resource persons or witnesses,

01:19because it is interchangeable,

01:22they do not say the truth or their process is obstructed

01:27or does not appear in the invitations.

01:30And especially, they are not able to find the right information

01:34because of what the resource persons and witnesses are doing.

01:39Because what is important here is to get the right information

01:42in order to make laws.

01:44That is the purpose and purpose of these hearings.

01:49It is saddening because now we can see what is happening.

01:55Congress has run out of time in listening

01:59and sometimes the questions are not relevant

02:03when it comes to discussing the violation of the law.

02:06And we continue to see people lying again and again.

02:11Resource persons who do not tell the truth

02:15to questions that are not relevant to the law.

02:19What is the effect of this?

02:22The effect of this is that the legitimacy of this hearing is lost.

02:27In the eyes of the people, it seems that the resource persons are not taking it seriously.

02:32They are smiling and making faces.

02:34And the effect is even worse because

02:38we can clearly see how the Vice President

02:41has a high view of the House of Contents

02:44but is not a site for contempt.

02:46So, there are mixed messages here.

02:50Other congressmen and senators are abusing their privileges.

02:55They are exploiting their resource persons.

02:58But some of them are only on the site of contempt,

03:01while others are not.

03:02Just like the high positions like the Vice President.

03:06The Congress should be careful

03:09that because of this,

03:11the hearing in aid of legislation is not done properly.

03:16The legitimacy of this is lost in the eyes of the people.

03:20It seems that the congressmen are becoming trigger-happy

03:23when they are on the site of contempt.

03:24I don't understand why they have to force the witnesses

03:28who know that they will lie.

03:30Is that the only source of truth?

03:34For example, the Senate knows that

03:38according to their documents,

03:40Alice Goh is not Filipino.

03:42There is documented evidence.

03:45There is the signature, the thumbprint, everything.

03:48It says that she is not a Chinese national.

03:51Why does she still need to be admitted?

03:54Isn't that the only source of truth?

03:57And they go to other resource persons,

04:00other issues, and other personalities

04:03The job is to take care of the well-being of the people

04:06because those are government officials.

04:08You know, you know what I can say.

04:12Maybe we should look, the congressmen or us,

04:15we should look and examine properly

04:18how these hearings in aid of legislation are really done.

04:22We have a process.

04:24That is taken care of by the court of law,

04:27their rules, and the Supreme Court said that it is right.

04:32But let's look at what is happening in the United States.

04:35In the United States, their congressmen cite contempt.

04:38But their contempt citations are approved by the entire plenary.

04:43And that's not all.

04:45The contempt citations in the US Congress

04:48are a form of appeal.

04:50They will appeal the one they cite in contempt to the court.

04:54And the court will decide if the person should be punished.

04:57Because of the court, there is a due process,

05:00they will give arguments, they will give rights for the lawyers to object.

05:04Because of what is happening in our country, let's think about it.

05:08The congressmen are the complainants in the contempt citations.

05:12They are the judges.

05:14They are the executioners.

05:16I don't think that is right in a democracy.

05:19That only happens in authoritarian systems.

05:22I repeat, let's reflect and study what is happening now

05:27and to the current congressmen and senators.

05:31Let's be careful not to lose the dignity of the people

05:36in the process that is very important

05:39in upholding our democracy

05:43and the well-being of the citizens of the Republic.

05:47That's all for Punto Libista for today.

05:49Back to you in the studio, Dayan.

05:53Thank you very much, Professor Contreras.

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