MANILA, Philippines -- A new impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was filed at the House of Representatives this Wednesday.

In a five-page complaint, Elly Velez Pamatong, a disqualified presidential candidate in 2004 accused Arroyo of allegedly violating her constitutional duty to act with “utmost integrity and loyalty to the Republic,” “utmost responsibility and patriotism, and “utmost efficiency and justice.”

The complainant cited the President’s public confessions regarding her phone conversations with resigned elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano during the 2004 elections and her signing of the controversial national broadband network agreement with China’s ZTE Corp. even when she knew that there were alleged irregularities in the contract.

“For making public confessions to the effect that she violated her duty to act and serve the Republic with utmost responsibility, integrity, efficiency, loyalty, and act with justice and patriotism, the undersigned hereby most respectfully prays that this impeachment complaint be given due course,” Pamatong said.

But the filing by Pamatong’ aide, Marlou Jonathan Planos, with the office of the House Secretary General was not easy as the official refused to accept the documents for lack of endorsement.

Under House rules, an endorsement by a member of the chamber is required to file the complaint.

After almost 30 minutes, a staff member at the SecGen’s office finally agreed to receive the complaint.

“Nire-receive lang, pero hindi ito filing ha [This is only being received but this is not filing it],” said the employee.

Pamatong himself did not appear at the filing, saying he has received “veiled” threats from an unidentified caller who asked him not to file the complaint.

“Kagabi, nakatanggap ako ng veiled threats. Hindi naman sinasabi na papatayin ako pero maiintindihan mo na yung gagawin [Last night, I received veiled threats. The caller did not say that he was going to kill me but you can infer from his statements],” he said over the phone.

He suspects that the threats are coming from the military.

Pamatong hopes that by next week, he will be able to get four or five lawmakers to endorse his complaint.

He quickly clarified thought that he initiated the filing of the case not to preempt the opposition.

“I don’t want to preempt the opposition. Ang problema, tahimik ang opposition. Hindi sila gumagalaw, parang administrasyon na yata sila e [The problem is the opposition is quiet. They are not doing anything. It’s like they are from the administration],” he said.