00:00Let's understand this in the proper context.
00:04Ang tinanong kay Presidente is,
00:07are you in favor of impeachment?
00:09Syempre hindi niya sasabihin na in favor siya or he's not in favor
00:13because that is the prerogative of the Congress.
00:16You know that under the Constitution,
00:19the impeachment must emanate from the lower house.
00:24Okay?
00:26Now, if the President has made a statement at all about that process,
00:30it is only an opinion that he stated
00:34because he probably, the thinking of the President is
00:37that might be distracting us from our agenda
00:42and our move forward, no?
00:45But we do not say to the lower house
00:48because we cannot dictate on the lower house.
00:50It is a co-equal,
00:52it belongs to a co-equal branch of government.
00:55All we were saying, the President was saying to the lower house is
00:58this is my position, but he's not blocking me.
01:02He's not blocking, he cannot do that
01:04because it is the discretion of the collective of the lower house.
01:11If they decide to initiate, there is no way of preventing that.
01:16You remember, many years ago,
01:21Speaker Mani Billiar, no?
01:23When he endorsed the impeachment complaint against President Erab,
01:31no one could have prevented him because it was his right
01:36to file an impeachment complaint to the Senate,
01:40and immediately the Senate acted.
01:43That's all.
01:45We have autonomy, independence, and so on.
01:49We cannot dictate on the other branches of government.
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