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(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the public’s right to know transcended whatever rights to privacy and presumption of innocence that national and local candidates have, as it justified the government’s plan to release next week the so-called narco list of politicians. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that it is also wrong for candidates involved in illegal activities to stop the release of the narco-list which was prepared with the help of wiretapped information […]
Duterte, members of his cabinet, extremely disappointed over inappropriate “disrespectful” conduct of House members in grilling of DBM chief (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is dismayed with the House Resolution which sought his reconsideration of the appointment of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, as all members of the Duterte cabinet expressed their support for Diokno, vouching for his integrity and competence. Presidential Spokesperson Savador Panelo read statements of support from various members of the […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang will investigate allegations of corruption in the P75 billion added in the budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) which Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno had admitted to have been responsible for. “Since there is an allegation of corruption, it follows that we have to investigate,” Panelo said in a Palace briefing. The Palace spokesperson noted that Diokno had already denied that there was any corruption involved in this. […]
(Eagle News)—“An incorrigible rabble-rouser and a perennial whiner.” This was how Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo described Senator Antonio Trillanes IV after he lashed out anew at the Duterte administration following the issuance of a warrant of arrest against him for libel. “Instead of facing this squarely, however, the Senator from Bicol ranted and released a fiery statement before the media, attacking the administration as his usual style,” Panelo said. According to Panelo, Trillanes was “certainly […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of the Solicitor General will no longer file a motion for reconsideration before branch 148 of the Makati regional trial court on its resolution that denied the government’s motion for an arrest warrant against opposition senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Instead, Solicitor General Jose Calida will go straight to the Court of Appeals to question the ruling of Makati RTC branch 148 Judge Andres Soriano, according to Malacanang. “He (Calida) […]
(Eagle News) – Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Atty. Salvador Panelo held his first media briefing as the newly designated presidential spokesperson on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 in Malacanang amid the uncertainty of whether former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque will really resign to run for the senate or not. Roque has been “on leave” since Monday, October 8, and had told Malacanang reporters that he would be going abroad and would not be able to hold […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo dismissed the “Lascañas Journal” as a mere invention, adding that retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas does not have a hand in its creation. “As I have previously stated, the so-called journal is a fabrication,” Panelo said in a statement. “The fact alone that it was not presented at the first opportunity is already a giveaway that it is an obvious and a no-brainer afterthought,” […]
(Eagle News) – Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo said he would “go over” the amnesty earlier granted by former President Benigno Aquino III to senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Panelo said Trillanes could be sent back to jail if it would be found that the amnesty given to Trillanes was invalid. “I don’t know of the facts of the case yet but there are some legal quarters expressing the same uncertainty or doubt on that. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte advised senator Leila de Lima to just answer in court the drug-related charges filed against her at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court by the Department of Justice on Friday, February 17. “She has to face the music. Actually ilang testigo ‘yan (There are several witnesses), it took months to develop the case,” Duterte told reporters during his visit to the wake of soldiers killed in action in Panacan, […]
(Eagle News) — Nakagawa na ng letter of appeal para kay incoming president Rodrigo Duterte ang grupong Justice Now Movement na binubuo ng pamilya ng mga biktima ng Maguindanao Massacre. Nakasaad sa naturang sulat na hinihiling ng grupo na pag-aralang maigi ni Duterte ang background ni Atty. Salvador Panelo bilang magiging presidential spokesperson dahil sa posible anilang impluwensya nito sa Maguindanao Massacre Case. Matatandaang naging legal counsel si Panelo ng mga Ampatuan na pamilyang pangunahing […]
