00:00Malacanang did not see any problem in the hearing of the Senate on the legality of the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:07Alvin Baltazar of Radyo Pilipinas with the national news.
00:11There is no problem with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the investigation conducted by Senator Amy Marcos
00:19regarding the legality of the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:23According to PCO Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer, Atty. Claire Castro,
00:29they spoke with the President and he said that he does not consider this as a violation of the law.
00:37This is different from the last administration where the Cabinet members are not allowed to go
00:42when they are called to a higher office.
00:46President Marcos will not allow officials who are called by the Senate to go
00:52to show that there is nothing to hide.
00:55Aside from the truthfulness of Atty. Castro, they want to show what they did in accordance with the law.
01:04We will discuss this and whatever they will do to appeal to the Senate,
01:10we will not stop them to show to the people that we are just following the law.
01:17Despite the fact that the hearing was not conducted in accordance with the law,
01:20it is not clear to the other side of the palace as to what is the real reason for calling for a hearing in the Senate
01:27regarding the legality of the arrest of the former President.
01:31According to Atty. Castro, there is an existing law, RA-9851,
01:36which he used to commit the murder of former President Ecutibo.
01:40PCO Official added that even legal luminaries or law experts like Retired SC Associate Justice Antonio Carpio
01:49are accused of committing a pecto-turnover in accordance with the law against the former President in the ICC.
01:54RA-9851's Section 17 states that the former President may be extradited to the International Court.
02:03We do not know the real reason why the hearing was called.
02:09It is clear to other law experts like Retired SC Associate Justice Carpio
02:21that they are accused of committing a pecto-turnover in accordance with the law against the former President in the ICC.
02:29For Balintang Pagbansa, Alvin Baltazar of Radyo Pilipinas.
