Minority Leader Juan Ponce-Enrile and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Miriam Defensor -Santiago said she would also deliver a privilege speech next week to answer the “personal attacks” against her by Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile.
Santiago, who has been on leave due to chronic fatigue syndrome, has asked Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano to schedule her privilege speech on December 4, 2013.
She said, in a statement this Wednesday, she was trying but was unable to get a copy of Enrile’s speech.
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