Impeach move off if Belmonte says so — Tupaz
Speaker, Senate chief won’t defy SC on Merci
By Gerry Baldo and Angie M. Rosales
09/16/2010
The leadership of Congress used moral suasion yesterday to douse a brewing feud between the judiciary and the legislative over the status quo ante order of the Supreme Court suspending the impeachment proceedings against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez as both the Speaker and the Senate president tried to dissuade the House committee on justice from disregarding the order of the high court.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. both said the House committee must comply with the order of the Supreme Court stopping the impeachment proceedings even as panel chairman, Iloilo Rep. Neil Tupaz, remained defiant against the high court’s order.
Tupaz, however, said the House committee will suspend the impeachment proceedings “if it’s prevailed upon by the Speaker.”
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100916hed1.html
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