(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has filed an ethics complaint against Senator Richard Gordon.
In his complaint made public on Thursday, Trillanes asked the chairman and members of the Senate committee on ethics and accountability to hold Gordon liable for “unparliamentary acts, language, conduct” which he said were tantamount to misconduct.
Last month, Trillanes said he would file the complaint after he and Gordon had a heated exchange during an Aug. 31 blue ribbon committee hearing on corruption in the Bureau of Customs, and on the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through the country in May via Customs express lanes.
During that hearing, Trillanes called the committee headed by Gordon a “komite de abswelto,” irking the senator, who lambasted him as well.
Trillanes’ complaint comes after Gordon himself filed an ethics complaint against the former military man in connection with his “continuous, unabated, unparliamentary acts, language and conduct… which is causing damage to the Senate and to the people.”
Gordon said Trillanes needed to be disciplined for his “malicious” remarks against the Senate, not only during the Senate hearing, but also in previous times.
Earlier, Trillanes also called the senators “puppets” of this administration.
