00:00House Speaker Martin Romualdez and three lawmakers were complained to the Office of the Ombudsman
00:05because of the billions of pesos allocated to the 2025 National Budget.
00:11On the return of one of the House Speaker's allies,
00:14why did the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte just now become a complaint after the impeachment complaint was transmitted to the Senate?
00:22Jonathan Andal has a point.
00:24Echoloc!
00:26Echoloc!
00:28Alayasin!
00:30Alayasin!
00:31The Ombudsman filed a complaint against House Speaker Martin Romualdez
00:37and other officials of the Camera
00:39regarding the complaint of the 241 billion pesos of insertions
00:44or allocated to the 2025 National Budget
00:48using the blancos left in the Bicameral Conference Committee Report.
00:52Aside from Speaker Romualdez,
00:54the House Majority Leader Manix Dalipe,
00:59former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Zaldico
01:02and the Acting Chairman of the Committee, Marikina Representative Stella Quimbo, were also complained.
01:07Those who filed the complaint were Davo Del Norte Representative Pantaleon Alvarez,
01:12Senatorial Candidate Attorney Jimmy Bondoc,
01:14Citizens Crime Watch President Diego Magpantay
01:17and lawyers Ferdinand Topacio and Virgilio Garcia.
01:21They asked the Ombudsman to file 12 counts of graft and falsification of legal documents.
01:27The respondents said,
01:29When we looked at what they put in the blanco,
01:33we found that it reached 241 billion.
01:37That's a big amount.
01:39You can't say that it's a typographical error
01:42that was done by the Technical Working Group.
01:44We are still waiting for the reaction of Speaker Romualdez, Quimbo and I.
01:49Dalipe said that passing the national budget is a responsibility of the Congress
01:54and any other tank that is released is a violation of the truth
01:58and an attack on the legislative process.
02:00Dalipe said,
02:02As a congressman, there were times when Alvarez was questioned
02:06or cut off from the so-called weakening of the 2025 General Appropriations Bill
02:11but he did not do it.
02:13He showed that Alvarez is just a politician
02:16to destroy the credibility of the Leader of the House of Representatives.
02:20Another congressman, Romualdez, also returned.
02:24This is just a clear diversion from the issues.
02:27If you think about it, they have been discussing the budget for a long time.
02:30Why did they decide to file cases
02:34after the impeachment was transmitted to the Senate?
02:39Alvarez denied that Vice President Sara Duterte was involved in the impeachment
02:43and they filed a complaint.
03:01For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, Katutok, 24 Hours.
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