Sereno spokesman confident that impeachment won’t proceed

FILE: Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno (Photo by Supreme Court of the Philippines)

High magistrate Maria Lourdes Sereno’s spokesman expressed confidence that the impeachment proceedings against the Chief Justice will be dismissed.

On Monday, one of Sereno’s lawyers, Carlo Cruz said that understanding their position now, they must remain hopeful of better circumstances despite the ‘pre-judgement.’

“In fact, there is now a result in our retention of our being hopeful. As the proceedings progress more and more, the people are finding out that the complaint filed by Atty. [Larry] Gadon, is totally without merit and deserves no more than a fast and outright dismissal,” Cruz said in an interview with ANC.

According to him, he has emphasized from the very beginning that they shall treat the case as lawyers, and he said that he was confident that the presented evidence was weak if they were to assess it as lawyers.

“Nothing has been [presented]… toward a who would lead to a conclusion that there is an impeachable act much less an impeachable offense based on an impeachable ground,” he said.

“What has been disclosed to date ‘no would be precisely emphasizing the fact that the complainant Atty. Gadon, clearly has no personal knowledge on any of his basic assertion or allegations,” Cruz further said.

In the same interview, Sereno’s spokesman emphasized that while the other camp has produced evidence, from a legal perspective, none has been relevant enough to assist the other side on their claims.

“We have confidence that the members of the House Committee will not proceed purely on the basis of political considerations. They do understand the importance of this particular role that they are playing in these proceedings,” he added.

However, Cruz said that in spite of things going well for their camp, he said that they still have to go through the Constitutional process and “continue the fight.”

“We are respondent in these proceedings and we have to comport ourselves properly as respondents regardless of whatever the declaration, any of the leaders of the House of Representatives may have made which can easily be perceived as pre-judgements,” he said.