{"id":223002,"date":"2019-07-15T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223002"},"modified":"2019-07-15T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:58:38","slug":"palace-on-lenis-impeachment-we-have-better-things-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/15\/palace-on-lenis-impeachment-we-have-better-things-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace on Leni\u2019s impeachment: \u2018We have better things to do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184384\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Robredo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184384\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Robredo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Robredo.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Robredo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robredo reportedly said the government should welcome the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seeking to investigate human rights violations in the Philippines in relation to the administration\u2019s drug war. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VPLeniRobredoPH\/photos\/a.1818436534940673\/1818436694940657\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VPLeniRobredoPH\/\">VP Leni Robredo\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said it had better things to do than pursue an impeachment complaint against Vice President Leni Robredo for supporting the United Nations (UN) resolution seeking to look into the country\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know, we have better things to do. There are so many problems in this country. I will leave it to those who would want to initiate whatever they want to initiate against whomsoever,\u201d Presidential Spokesman and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Commissioner lawyer Manuelito Luna said Robredo could be impeached for endorsing the UN resolution describing it as a betrayal of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of directly answering whether the Palace supported Luna\u2019s statement, Panelo raised the question of whether Robredo\u2019s \u201cignorance\u201d is a betrayal of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs ignorance a betrayal of the public trust? That is my response. If gross ignorance is the ground for impeachment; is that a ground under the Constitution?\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo also noted that Palace will allow the advocates of Robredo\u2019s impeachment to do what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDraw your conclusion. That is my response. But I will let the advocate pursue that line,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are as many opinions as there are lawyers. The impeachment court will be the ultimate decider of that legal issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Luna said although he has no intention of filing an impeachment complaint against Robredo, it should serve as a warning for her to \u201ctemper\u201d her statements.<\/p>\n<p>Robredo reportedly said the government should welcome the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seeking to investigate human rights violations in the Philippines in relation to the administration\u2019s drug war.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the UN body\u2019s 47 members, 18 countries supported Iceland\u2019s proposal, 14 countries including the Philippines voted against it, while the remaining 15 abstained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said it had better things to do than pursue an impeachment complaint against Vice President Leni &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223003,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223002\/revisions\/223003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}