00:00The palace has given a statement that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has no power
00:04to dictate the low level of the Congress regarding the impeachment complaint
00:09against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:12This is what the Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said in the statement of Mayor Block
00:17that the President seems to be stopping the impeachment complaint against the Vice President.
00:22According to the secret, if the President signed the statement regarding this matter, it is just an opinion
00:28and will not dictate what the Congress should do.
00:32This is a co-equal branch in the Executive Branch of the government
00:35that has its own autonomy and freedom in the actions of its members.
00:58He is not blocking, he cannot do that because it is the discretion of the collective of the lower house.
01:07If they decide to initiate, there is no way of preventing that.
