Duterte to De Lima: Stop the talk, impeach me

President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Leila de Lima. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS

Stop the talk. Impeach me.

President Rodrigo Duterte remained unfazed despite possible moves to impeach him after his declaration that he wouldn’t allow policemen involved in the killing of former Albuera town mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. to be jailed.

“They can go ahead. Bakit pa mas maraming daldal? Sige na, impeach na… Hayaan mo sila (Why is there so much chatter? Go, impeach me… let them do that). Sige impeachable, go ahead,” Duterte said on Thursday in an ambush interview during the ground breaking ceremony of the Bicol International Airport in Legazpi City, Albay.

On Wednesday, Sen. Leila de Lima said the statement of Duterte that he would not allow the policemen involved in the killing of Espinosa to go to jail was “bordering (on) impeachability” for  committing “betrayal of public trust.” JE/rga

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