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On Mon, Jan 26, Senate President Franklin Drilon suspended the warrants of arrest against Makati Mayor Junjun Binay and five others.
READ: Senate issues arrest warrant for Makati Mayor Junjun Binay, 5 others
“Drilon made the move after Senators Chiz Escudero and Tito Sotto questioned the process by which the Blue Ribbon Committee of Sen. TG Guingona approved the petition to cite in contempt Binay and company,” reports The Daily Tribune.
The report said that “Sotto primarily questioned the lack of quorum in the Blue Ribbon panel when Guingona issued his decision.”
The report pointed out that “Guingona issued the ruling in the presence of only himself, Sen. Koko Pimentel, and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.”
As such, “Sotto added that whenever the Senate decides on a very important and sensitive matter, there should be quorum and not a mere ‘panel of three.'”
For his part, as the report indicated, “Escudero backed Sotto’s manifestation to suspend the implementation of the warrants of arrest against Binay and company citing ‘a threat’ from the minority to gather enough signatures to reverse the Guingona ruling.”
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