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Santiago dares Enrile to televised debate on ‘pork’ scam

By: - Reporter / @MAgerINQ
/ 05:06 PM December 04, 2013

Minority Leader Juan Ponce-Enrile and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago dared Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce-Enrile to a televised debate on the plunder charge against him in connection with the P10-billion “pork barrel” funds scam.

“I did in the past, I challenge Enrile to a public televised debate on the plunder charge against him…,” Santiago said in her speech on Wednesday.

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“The first time I challenged Enrile to a debate, he declined and instead called on Lacson to shower me with near-illiterate insults, including an oxymoron,” she said, referring to former Senator Panfilo Lacson.

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“If this second time Enrile again evades debate, that will be an admission that he is the mastermind of the plunder of some P10-billion of the taxpayers’ money; and that he is insulting me on a personal level, as a diversionary tactic, and as a smokescreen for his criminality,”  Santiago said.

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