By Moira Encina
Eagle News Service
Supreme Court Spokesperson Theodore Te has resigned.
Te’s resignation is effective Sept. 7.
His term was co-terminous with Maria Lourdes Sereno’s, but it was extended under the term of acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio after Sereno was ousted by the Supreme Court via a quo warranto petition in May.
His extended appointment, which would last until a new Chief Justice was appointed, had been signed by three chairpersons including then-Associate Justice and now-Chief Justice Teresita de Castro.
Atty. Maria Victoria Gleoresty Guerra will serve as PIO chief and SC spokesperson, a post she already held in previous times.
According to Te’s resignation letter, he will go back to teaching full-time.
“I respectfully believe that I would be of greater value to the judiciary and the Court in the academic world at this time,” he wrote.
Anti-Sereno groups already called for Te’s resignation after his controversial “I dissent” Tweet following the SC’s ouster of Sereno.