The camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said on Friday that the recent statement of Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez only validates the latter’s “strong desire” to have the country’s top magistrate removed from office. “The statement of Speaker Alvarez only validates his strong desire to have the Chief Justice ousted,” Sereno’s spokesperson and lawyer Aldwin Salumbides said in a statement sent to Inquirer. ADVERTISEMENT“There is no letup in his attacks—verbal and personal—against Chief Justice Sereno,” Salumbides added. In fact, gusto nga nila na magbitiw na lang si Chief Justice,” he added. Those are supposed to be addressed by internal measures and not by an extreme resort to impeachment,” Salumbides stressed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 08, 2017 01:52 UTC