Oh, the drama!
“On Wednesday, June 25, Malacañang assured Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada that it wasn’t out to remove him from office and that it did not have a hand in the disqualification case hounding him in the Supreme Court,” reports TJ Burgonio in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
In a press briefing, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda pointed out that “the disqualification case against Estrada, which was initiated by lawyer Alicia Resos-Vidal long before the pork barrel scandal broke out, was still pending with the high tribunal.”
Lacierda stated, “We would like to assure Mayor Estrada, and with all due respect to whatever was mentioned to him or confided to him by his allies, that we have no plan to eliminate Mayor Estrada.”
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