• 10 hours ago
While President Marcos is firm on his opposition to the filing of impeachment cases against Vice President Sara Duterte, he agreed with his chief legal counsel Juan Ponce Enrile's opinion that the county may face "very detrimental precedent" if the Iglesia Ni Cristo's implied logic in their peace rally is followed.


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Transcript
00:00Well, you know, JPE is one of our best legal thinkers in the country, and he's right.
00:07There is a consequence to... there will be a precedence, and it will be very problematic.
00:15But I still think that now, even if Congress is mandated to process this...
00:25Congress doesn't have... the House doesn't have a choice.
00:29And the Senate doesn't have a choice once these impeachment... impeachment complaints are filed.
00:35But I don't think that now is the time to go through that.
00:39So, we will have to wait and see.
00:42As a practical matter, we are entering the campaign period.
00:47There are no more congressmen, no more senators, because they are campaigning.
00:50We will not be able to form a quorum.
00:53And so, as a practical matter, the timing is very poor.
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