Answer complaint, ethics panel orders Trillanes
THE Senate Ethics Committee has asked Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th to answer in 10 working him by Sen. Richard Gordon for “unparliamentary acts” and disorderly behavior.
The ethics panel, chaired by Senate Majority Leader Vicente meeting to tackle the complaints Sen. Leila de Lima, and Sotto himself. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senators 2nd, Paolo Benigno Aquino and Risa Hontiveros attended.
The committee ruled that Gordon’s complaint against Trillanes has “form and substance.”
Gordon said that Trillanes disrespected and maligned the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee during its hearing on the shabu smuggling on Aug. 31 when he branded it a “comite de absuelto” (committee of exoneration).
He also denounced Trillanes’ “pattern of unbecoming conduct and insulting language against persons and public institutions,” enumerating the latter’s alleged misdemeanors such as calling fellow senators cowards, insulting former Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano and turning off his mike, and quarreling with Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri among others.
Gordon had earlier said that Trillanes should be expelled from the chamber.
Informed of the ethics panel’s action, Trillanes said he will submit himself to the investigation process.
“I respect the decision of the ethics committee. I will submit
to the process. I will face it whole did not do anything unparliamentary,” he said., adding that he is willing to face Gordon in an open public ethics hearing.
The ethics panel deferred deliberation on de Lima’s case to study allow her to attend hearings at the December 2016 a complaint against de Lima for allegedly preventing her former driver-lover Ronnie Dayan from attending the House investigation into the proliferation of illegal drugs at the New Bilibid Prison.
Lacson, the vice chairman, took over against Sotto by a women’s group over his demeaning “na ano lang” remark to then social work secretary-designate - tion hearing at the Commission on Appointments (CA).
The complaint against Sotto was dismissed.