{"id":157152,"date":"2018-03-18T05:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157152"},"modified":"2018-03-18T05:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T09:03:37","slug":"trillanes-remark-vs-prrd-not-covered-by-immunity-panelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/18\/trillanes-remark-vs-prrd-not-covered-by-immunity-panelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillanes remark vs. PRRD not covered by immunity: Panelo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE:\u00a0Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (Photo<\/a>: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the \u201cremarks\u201d of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV against President Rodrigo Duterte are not covered by the lawmaker\u2019s parliamentary immunity.<\/p>\n

In his statement posted on Facebook, Panelo said the inciting to sedition charges filed against Trillanes was not based on his criticisms against Duterte, but was based on his call on the military \u201cto violate the person of the President\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe claim of Senator Trillanes of parliamentary immunity was found unavailing because his malicious remark could not, by any stretch of imagination, be related to the discharge of his official functions as a legislator,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

While freedom of speech is the hallmark of democracy, Panelo said a \u201cmarket place of ideas\u201d has inherent limitations.<\/p>\n

\u201c(That) even the mantle of parliamentary immunity is not absolute,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Last week, a Pasay City prosecutor has found probable cause to charge Trillanes with inciting to sedition in connection with his privilege speech on Oct. 3, 2017 at the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo here\u2019s the answer now. If the soldiers could see this, they will use the M60 machine gun on you. These are many. The magazines will be emptied if you\u2019re looking for PHP40 million, Mr. Duterte,\u201d Trillanes said as quoted in the complaint.<\/p>\n

The complaint also stemmed from Trillanes\u2019 claim that Duterte has PHP2 billion in his bank account, which is \u201ctending to create in the minds of the public a feeling of hatred and disgust towards the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the Revised Penal Code, Panelo said a person could commit the crime of inciting to sedition if he provokes others by means of speeches or presentations to the accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute sedition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Trillanes incited the soldiers to use a machine gun on the President and roused the people to force the President to do certain acts in order to inflict an act of hate upon the President and disturb peace and order, thereby preventing the government from maintaining the same. Under the law, those acts constitute the crime of inciting to sedition,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Panelo added that it is clear that \u201cinciting people to commit sedition against the President or the Government cannot be considered as part of Senator Trillanes\u2019 official functions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panelo also said Trillanes was wrong when he compared his criminal case to the President\u2019s move to withdraw from the Rome Statue, which created the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n

He said Trillanes is being heard by executive and judicial authorities having jurisdiction over his person while Duterte is being subjected to violations of his constitutional rights to due process and the presumption of innocence by a law (Rome Statute) \u201cwhich is not even enforceable in this country.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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