Liberal Party lauds clear impeach proceedings vs Corona

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

THE Liberal Party (LP) Bacolod City Chapter expressed satisfaction with the way the first day of the impeachment trial was conducted and hoped that the proceedings will continue as efficiently, as impartially and as professionally in the succeeding days.

"We commend both the prosecution and the defense panels for the clear and forthright way with which they made their opening statements. More than this, however, we praise them for their professionalism in quietly accepting the ruling of the Senate President with respect to their separate motions and manifestations," said party honorary chairman Andy Hagad and party chair Frank Carbon.

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The local LP said that they are satisfied with the manner with which the impeachment court comported itself, giving the Filipino people hope that the proceedings will end in the way it began, dispensing justice not only to Chief Justice Renato Corona but to democracy in general, and to the sovereign people in particular.

The group also encouraged all citizens to listen with both mind and heart to the arguments of both the prosecution and the defense, and to express their sentiments at the end of the impeachment trial, to guide the Court to render the absolutely proper and the fairest decision.

“Let us not forget that, in the impeachment trial, we, and not the Senators who only represent us, are the final arbiters of who is right or wrong,” the group added.

Meanwhile, Bacolod City Councilor Caesar Distrito, a practicing lawyer himself, said that the impeachment trial, although a political process, still needs to observe due process.

“The prosecution cannot just go to Article 2 of the impeachment without tackling Article 1. That's the problem of our Congressmen-Prosecutors, thinking that the trial shall best be made in the court of public opinion rather than the real impeachment court,” Distrito said. (With report from Carla N. Cañet)