The pro-impeachment congressmen can huff and puff all they want, but their amended complaint will be rejected by the Justice committee headed by Rep. Simeon Datumanong, since a “pact” has already been forged between President Arroyo and her allies in Congress, a Palace insider told the Tribune yesterday.
“It will be the Lozano complaint that will be approved, after which it will also be dismissed on the issues of form and substance,” the Palace official, who asked not to be named, said, adding that the deal to kill the impeachment complaint forged between Mrs. Arroyo and the congressmen, headed by Speaker Jose de Venecia, was in exchange for a change in the Constitution which would see the incumbent congressmen sitting as the “transition amended impeachment complaint.
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Already, Malacañang justified the move of the presidential allies in the House to kill the amended impeachment complaint.
Mrs. Arroyo's spokesman for the impeachment lawyer Romulo Macalintal however, clarified that they are not killing the amended impeachment of the opposition but merely following the “rule of law” as stated in the Constitution.
“Why would we kill their amended impeachment when this is what the law requires? We're not being technical here. We're just following what the Constitution is saying stressing there's no “double standard” of justice, referring to the presidency of Joseph Estrada in 2000 when Congress included the pieces of evidence presented against the former in the Senate for trial even when these were not included in the charge sheet.
Yeah right, Mr. Makalintal.
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