Palace shrugs off bid for President’s health disclosure
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has shrugged off a petition seeking to compel President Rodrigo Duterte to disclose the true state of his health, saying it was born out of a lawyer’s “boredom” amid the lockdown.
Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo said the petition for mandamus filed by lawyer Dino de Leon “warrants an outright dismissal.”
“There is no evidence submitted before the high court that the President is suffering from a serious illness,” Panelo said on Monday night.
In a post on Facebook, De Leon said he filed an extremely urgent petition asking the Supreme Court to compel the President to disclose his medical records.
De Leon noted that the President’s public appearances were “incoherent, unresponsive and filled with unintelligible ramblings.”
—Julie M. Aurelio
