MANILA, Philippines?The Liberal Party said on Wednesday that the wife of former National Power Corp. president Guido Delgado, a Nacionalista Party campaign volunteer, was the source of the first psychiatric report on Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III, which was eventually disowned by the Jesuit priest said to have written and signed it.

``We have an e-mail showing the source of the fake psychiatric report is Joy, the wife of Guido Delgado,'' Edwin Lacierda told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a telephone interview.

Guido Delgado was also the one who presented in a press conference on Tuesday an unverified copy of a second psychiatric evaluation of Aquino taken 30 years ago, when he was 19 years old. That report stated that he was suffering from depression and melancholia.

Lacierda said they got hold of Delgado's e-mail when the first fake psychiatric report was reported in the news on April 8.

``We have this email as early as the date stated and we have kept this under wraps for a long time now. But considering that Mr. Guido Delgado maliciously and irresponsibly lent his name to this second fake report as part of their continuing campaign to taint Senator Aquino, we are constrained to release this email,'' Lacierda said.

He expressed the view that Aquino should file charges against the Delgado couple for what he called their ``irresponsible and malicious acts" but the Liberal Party would rather focus on the protection of their votes on May 10, 2010.

``We have no time. It is backfiring on them, and we are preoccupied with the protection of the votes,'' Lacierda replied when asked if Aquino was inclined to file charges against them.

The e-mail of Delgado's wife, forwarded by Lacierda to the Inquirer, stated she received the e-mail from someone and asked if the signature of Fr. Tito Calauag, the signatory of the first fake psychiatric report, was genuine.

``I got this in the email, just now. I have never been one to forward destructive emails unless verified. But looking at Fr. Tito's signature, as far as I can recall, it does look authentic. Unless of course, somebody did a copy-paste. Can you verify this with him please? I seem to have lost his mobile number,'' the email presented by Lacierda stated.

Also enclosed in the e-mail was the supposed fake evaluation of Caluag.

Calauag later publicly disowned the report.

In the interview, Lacierda also lambasted the Nacionalista Party for using the Jesuits priest for their black propaganda.

``This is the second time they used the Jesuit priests, how many more Jesuits priests they will use for their black propaganda?'' Lacierda said.

Lacierda added that Delgado had the access and the time to verify the truthfulness of the documents.

``If he really wanted to know the truth, he could have verified it with Father Bulatao,'' he said.

Delgado had earlier admitted he made the report public although he had not verified it. The report, he claimed, was brought by a messenger to Villar's volunteer office in Mandaluyong City.

Bulatao had issued a statement denying he conducted a psychiatric assessment nor signed a report on Aquino in 1979.