Robredo
Malacañang on Friday linked Vice President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo to the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte, which it said was part of a destabilization plot against the Chief Executive.
“If it is not her personal intent, she may have played into the hands of those who wish to use her as a political animal. Either way it is a pathetic state of affairs for her,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a statement.
Magdalo Party-list Representative Gary Alejano on Thursday filed the first impeachment complaint against Duterte, citing drug killings and graft as basis. The Palace dismissed it as just another attempt to discredit the Duterte administration.
Abella said the message of Robredo to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs criticizing the administration’s war on drugs and the filing of an impeachment case against Duterte “seems too neat to be written off as mere coincidence.”
Duterte earlier ruled out that Robredo had nothing to do with what he called “destabilization” efforts against him.
The Palace official said the impeachment case against the President was “only the latest in an orchestrated effort of a well-funded destabilization campaign against President Rodrigo Duterte.”