FILE PHOTO: Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III
MANILA, Philippines — The impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is not a Senate priority.
This was the statement of Senator Tito Sotto in a forum in Manila on Wednesday.
According to the senator, there are pending bills in the upper chamber such as the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL); salary standardization; penalties of arresto menor; the Fair Elections Act; agricultural land conversion ban; and the Expanded Absentee Voting Act, among others.
Senate may possibly hear the impeachment in the first week of August.
Meantime, Sotto also believes the fate of the divorce bill in the Senate is blurry even as it passed the third and final reading in the Lower House.
“Chances are very slim. Additional grounds or expanding the grounds for annulment has a bigger chance for us. Maybe that has a bigger chance,” he said.
“Annulment from the start [is void], as if the marriage did not happen,” Sotto explained. — UNTV News & Rescue
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