Manuelito Luna, who represents former Negros Oriental Jacinto Paras and lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, has announced he will submit documents from the Presidential Commission on Good Government to the House of Representatives committee on justice to strengthen the impeachment case against resigned Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista.
Majority Leader Rudy Fariñas said Albay first-district Rep. Edcel Lagman was wrong to claim that the House of Representatives was hasty in impeaching Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista last Wednesday.
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez defended the surprising move of the House of Representatives to impeach Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista by a vote of 137-75, with two abstentions.
There is no more need for the Senate to convene as an impeachment court since Commission on Elections Chairman Andy Bautista has already tendered his resignation effective end of December 2017.
The House of Representatives has impeached Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista by reversing the committee report and resolution of the House committee on justice dismissing the impeachment complaint against him.
Partido Liberal senators have expressed alarm over the threats employed by the government and its allies against democratic institutions such as the Ombudsman, Supreme Court, and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) either through impeachment or zero-budget allocation.
Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista on Thursday assured the P600 million that Comelec had already spent for the printing of ballots would not go to waste.
Patricia “Tish” Bautista, the estranged wife of Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista, said she was not surprised by the decision of the House committee on justice to dismiss the impeachment complaint against him for insufficiency in form.
Patricia “Tish” Bautista, the estranged wife of Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista, made a personal appearance at the hearing of the House committee on justice on the impeachment complaint filed against her husband.
The House of Representatives committee on justice chaired by Oriental Mindoro second-district Rep. Reynaldo Umali dismissed the impeachment complaint filed by Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) members Atty. Ferdinand Topacio and former Negros Rep. Jacinto Paras against Commission on Elections chairman Andy Bautista due to a technicality.
