Lawyer Andre de Jesus gave a rather impassioned explanation on Monday, Jan. 19 on why President Marcos should be impeached and unseated by Congress.

De Jesus--accompanied by Pusong Pinoy Party-list Rep. Jett Nisay--gave a break down of the allegations against Marcos as contained in his 12-page impeachment complaint that was filed that morning.

Nisay served as the endorser of the complaint.

"Well, in sum, there are six grounds for, I mean, comprising the complaint itself.

But to sum it up, based on the grounds provided by the Constitution, it's culpable violation of the Constitution, graft and corruption, as well as betrayal of public trust," De Jesus said.

"So, we are putting to question and holding the President accountable, number one, for allowing a citizen of our country to just be whisked away, kidnapped virtually, and brought to a foreign land without due process, despite fully functioning courts here in the country," he said, referring to former president Rodrigo Duterte.

Another allegation is Marcos' supposed "flagrant failure" to veto unprogrammed appropriations (UA) and unprogrammed funds in the national budget "despite being able to do so".

"In fact, what was mentioned by Cong Jett earlier, the President had every opportunity to veto. He signed that actual budget despite the fact that the Supreme Court (SC) had declared the failed health component of that budget to be unconstitutional," De Jesus said.

The flood control projects corruption scandal--arguably the dominant talking point in the current 20th Congress--was also cited as basis for ousting the Chief Executive.

"Next, we're also holding the President accountable for the current, supposed investigations by government of graft and corrupt practices involving 'ghost' projects, flood control projects, so on and so forth," he said.

De Jesus also took the Chief Executive to task for supposedly "dodging" allegations of drug use.

"We're also putting to question the fitness of the President to still govern our country. If you will notice, for some it might be laughable, for some it might be trivial, but an allegation that our sitting President might be somehow involved in an addiction of some sort to prohibited drugs should be alarming," he said.

"This is not the main thrust of the impeachment complaint, but it is one of them. It is an issue that has been dodged by the President. It is an issue that has been dodged by Malacañang. They're just, you know, they're just sweeping it under the rug," the lone complainant added.

He cited a rule of evidence that codifies "silence means yes".

"We have not heard from the President denying it. We have not heard from the President going through a procedure to debunk all these rumors that he is addicted or is using prohibited drugs."

De Jesus also assailed the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), the body created by President Marcos to look into anomalous and ghost flood control projects.

"I feel that the ICI has been weaponized by the government in order to protect his allies, the respondent's allies, President Marcos' allies and target political enemies," he said.

"So, we feel that apart from the President being an impeachable officer, we feel that this avenue would enable not just myself as complainant, not just Cong Jett as the endorser, but the Filipino people to thresh out all these matters which are being raised but are not answered at all by the President and his Cabinet and his officers," he noted.