A "cheap and desperate publicity stunt".
That's how La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega described Duterte Youth Party-List's apparent attempt to file the first ever impeachment complaint against President Marcos at the House of Representatives.
“Wala pa ngang pormal na reklamo, ginamit na nila ito para magpasikat sa media (The complaint was yet to be formalize and yet they used ,” Ortega said in a statement Friday, May 9, a day after Ronald and Marie Cardema tried but failed to file the complaint before House Secretary General Reginald Velasco.
“This tells you everything you need to know—it’s not about justice, it’s about clout. I will personally protect the President from this baseless and malicious attack,” declared the House deputy majority leader.
“The so-called impeachment complaint is a mere political gimmick, designed to distract the public from the real work of nation-building under the leadership of President Marcos,” the Ilocano said.
Velasco was not around when the Cardema couple, representing Duterte Youth Party-list, went to the House. As it stands, the impeachment complaint is unfiled.
The party-list played up its ouster petition against Marcos just four days before the conduct of the mid-term elections.
Ortega added that the Marcos administration has made tremendous progress in economic recovery, infrastructure, agriculture, and social programs—gains that should be protected, not undermined by political stunts.
“In La Union and across the country, we see the results of good governance under PBBM. We will not allow attention-seekers to hijack the national agenda for their own selfish ambitions,” Ortega stressed.
“We will not allow bad politics to destroy the good that we are building. The Filipino people deserve better,” he added.