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'May anger issues?': Ridon, Cendaña castigate VP Duterte lawyer

Published Aug 12, 2026 04:56 pm

At A Glance

  • Rep. Terry Ridon criticizes defense counsel Kristine Ferrer's cross‑examination style, saying she appeared to shout at the witness, opposing counsel, and presiding officer, which he described as showing weakness in Duterte's defense team.
  • Rep. Perci Cendaña calls Ferrer's remark that "misleading questions are allowed" a shameless statement, arguing it reflects values upheld by Vice President Sara Duterte's office rather than mere defense tactics.
  • Both pro‑impeachment lawmakers accuse Duterte's camp of misleading the public when faced with inconvenient truths, framing it as part of the broader impeachment proceedings.
From left: Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña, lawyer Kristine Ferrer, Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon (Facebook, Senate PRIB, PPAB)
From left: Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña, lawyer Kristine Ferrer, Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon (Facebook, Senate PRIB, PPAB)


Pro-impeachment congressmen Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña criticized Vice President Sara Duterte's defense counsel Kristine Ferrer for her utterances and demeanor on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
Their tirades stemmed from Ferrer's cross-examination of Commission on Audit (COA) state auditor Xylene del Campo during the continuation of respondent Duterte's Senate impeachment trial.
During cross, Ferrer and private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan, who earlier conducted direct examination on Del Campo, had some feisty--if not heated--exchanges.
"Una sa lahat parang may anger issues yung defense (First of all it looks like the defense has anger issues)," Ridon, one of the 11 solon-prosecutors in the trial, said of Ferrer.
"Parang sinisigawan niya yung witness, sinisigawan niya yung opposing counsel, sinisigawan niya yung presiding officer. Hindi niyo ba nakita yun?" he said, referring to Del Campo, Kapunan, and Senator Francis "Chiz" Escudero, respectively.
(It seems he was shouting at the witness, shouting at the opposing counsel, shouting at the presiding officer. Didn’t you see that?)
Ridon insinuated that such manner of cross-examination betrayed weakness on the part of Duterte's defense team. 
"So kung ganyan yung takbo ng cross, parang tapos na yung boxing (So if the cross is going like that, then the fight is over)."
Shameless statement
For his part, Cendaña branded Ferrer's particular remark on misleading questions during cross as "shameless".
"'Misleading questions are allowed,' sabi ng defense counsel ni VP Sara (said VP Sara's defense counsel). What a shameless statement," he said in an X post.
Mader Perci added: "Hindi na lang ito strategy o tactic ng defense. Values na ito na tinatayuan ng opisina. Pagkatao na yan ni VP Sara."
(This is no longer just a strategy or tactic of the defense. These are values being upheld by the office. That is already the character of VP Sara.)
"Para sa kampo nila, kapag inconvenient ang katotohanan, ang solusyon ay i-mislead ang taumbayan," said the 2025 and 2026 impeachment complaint endorser.
(For their camp, when the truth is inconvenient, the solution is to mislead the people.)

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Kristine Ferrer Terry Ridon Perci Cendaña Sara Duterte impeachment Anger issues Lorna Kapunan Xylene del Campo Cross-examination
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