Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano said on Saturday his lawyers were looking at filing a supplemental complaint to boost the impeachment case he earlier filed against President Rodrigo Duterte, to possibly include China’s planned infrastructure buildup on Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and its recent incursion on Benham Rise.
Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano said on Saturday his lawyers were looking at filing a supplemental complaint to boost the impeachment case he earlier filed against President Rodrigo Duterte, to possibly include China’s planned infrastructure buildup on Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and its recent incursion on Benham Rise.
Alejano said that their legal team was already studying the pronouncements made by Mr. Duterte regarding Chinese actions on the territories since the Cabinet appears to be “at a loss” to explain them to the public.
‘Inform everybody’
Recent events showed that there was “confusion” as to the government’s foreign policy direction and its relationship with China, whose bilateral relationship with Manila is currently on the mend amid the territorial dispute.
“If he has nothing to hide, it should be properly communicated to his team, to his Cabinet and to the Filipino people. He cannot just keep [agreements] to himself. He has to inform everybody,” Alejano told reporters.
Then Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay in February said that the country has been assured by China that it had no plans to set up structures on Panatag.
