Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday said President Duterte should, after his six-year term expires in mid-2022, definitely be put behind bars for crimes against the nation.

During a DZRH radio interview today, Trillanes claimed the Duterte’s administration is pockmarked with corruption, mismanagement, human rights violation and virtual ceding of Philippine sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea to China.

China, according to Trillanes, has ‘’imperialistic plans’’ for the South China Sea (SCS).

Aside from Duterte, cohorts of the President should also be clapped in jail, he pointed pointed out.

Trillanes admitted yesterday that he is interested to run in the 2022 presidential election should Vice President Leni Robredo seek a Camarines Sur gubernatorial post and chosen by ISambayan chaired by former Senior

Associate Justice Antonio Carpio.

He said Carpio has no presidential ambitions when he asked the Jurist on this issue yesterday.

Thus the issue of who should be his running mate depends on the decision of ISambayan this July on who should be its candidate from the group.

ISambayan’s members come from a broad representation of pro-democracy groups, he explained.

Trillanes said chances of the opposition winning in the 2022 polls are good because it offers good governance and new hope.

Any administration candidate would be forced to defend or be stained by President Duterte’s bad record that put the country in a dark debt pit.

He said his role as back channel representative of then President Noynoy Aquino on the Scarborough Shoal confrontation with China was successful because the 80 to 100 Chinese vessels were pulled out and only three just stayed in the area.

After China refused to withdraw the last three vessels, the Noynoy Aquino contested before and won its territorial contest with China at the UN Arbitration Court, he added.

Critics had flayed Duterte for saying that the UN court ruling was simply a piece of paper.