Tag: Kiko Pangilinan statement

Pangilinan to colleagues: Allow De Lima to attend hearing so she can defend herself

(Eagle News)–Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Thursday, Sept. 12, urged his colleagues to allow Senator Leila de Lima, who is detained on drug-related charges, to attend the Senate hearing on the problems in the Bureau of Corrections so she can defend herself. De Lima, after all, he said, was being used as a “scapegoat in the scandal that has blown up”  in the “face” of the BuCor. “Hindi si Sen. De Lima ang nagtangkang pakawalan si […]

LP on sedition raps vs Robredo, others: “Gawa-gawa, kasinungalingan, walang basehan”

(Eagle News)–“Gawa-gawa, kasinungalingan, at walang basehan.” This was how Liberal Party president Kiko Pangilinan described the raps filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and several others over the “Ang Totoong Narco-list” videos against President Rodrigo Duterte and his family. In a statement, Pangilinan said “ginagawa ito ng mga kalaban ng demokrasya..” He said this was because “si VP na lang ang nakaharang sa kanilang hangarin na ituloy ang patayan sa huwad na war on drugs […]