00:00There are stricter prohibitions on the President and Vice President, and even actually the Cabinet Secretaries, their Undersecretaries and Assistants.
00:10Justice, punta naman tayo sa Presidente at Vice Presidente.
00:14Pareho lang po ba ang rules sa kanila at sa ordinaryong government employee pagdating sa kanilang kita at financial interest?
00:22Objection leading, Your Honor.
00:24May I respond if Your Honors, please?
00:27Yes, Honorable Chael, can I respond?
00:29I am simply asking if the rules are the same, but if the Court would like, I can rephrase the
00:35question to make it non-leading.
00:37Kindly rephrase, counsel, but in the interest of time as well.
00:42What are the rules, Justice, insofar as a President and Vice President are concerned as compared to the ordinary government
00:51employee?
00:52There are stricter prohibitions on the President and Vice President, and even actually the Cabinet Secretaries, their Undersecretaries and Assistants.
01:03Bakit po mas mahigpit ang batas pagdating sa Presidente, Vice Presidente, at Cabinet members?
01:10Well, ayon sa Korte Suprema, in the case of Civil Liberties Union versus Executive Secretary,
01:19there is the greater possibility of abuse in their office given their positions.
01:25Your Honor, please, if I may be allowed to make a manifestation.
01:28Your Honor, we understand the position of this Court, that the testimony of the witness is not binding upon this
01:35Court.
01:35But how about the general public?
01:39This already serves as conditioning of the mind of the public.
01:43After all, the public is not educated as to which of these laws that the witness is testifying on is
01:50applicable to this case or not.
01:52And we just want to make that for the record.
01:55It's clearly not.
01:57Let the Chair clarify.
01:59The Chair earlier asked the Honorable Jokno if she has any personal knowledge in regard to this case,
02:05as asked also by a Senator Judge, and the Honorable Jokno said no.
02:10So clearly, she is not testifying specifically to the facts surrounding this case,
02:16and this case in particular against the respondent.
02:19But the prosecution wishes to use up one of their 15 witnesses and one of their trial dates on the
02:29Honorable Justice Tang,
02:33and the Court allowed it, Counsel.
02:36So you may proceed, Honorable Jokno.
02:38Thank you, Yone.
02:39Ipakita po natin ang Article 7, Section 6 ng ating Constitution, please.
02:47Mayroon pong nakasulat po sa bandang dulo nitong provision.
02:51First, in the beginning part of this provision, it says,
02:54the salaries of the President and Vice President shall be determined by law.
02:59And then at the end, it says,
03:00they shall not receive during their tenure any other emolument from the government or any other source.
03:08Ano pong ibig sabihin ito?
03:10Simply, ang ibig sabihin niya, hindi pwedeng tumanggap yung Presidente or Vice Presidente ng sahod mula sa kanilang legitimate na
03:19sahod at sa iba pang sources.
03:23E kami pong mga mambabatas ay wala naman pong ganun na restriction.
03:26Bakit po ganitong kahigpit ang konstitusyon natin pagdating sa Pangulo at pangalawang Pangulo?
03:32Well, it's the same reason I gave in the case of, cited by the Supreme Court, in the case of
03:39civil society versus Executive Secretary.
03:49Thank you po.
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