MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday expressed his agreement with the decision of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima to deny former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s request to go abroad supposedly for medical treatment.
“We need her here for her arraignment if this will be needed,” Aquino said in a news briefing for him to personally address the issue in Malacañang.
Arroyo is the subject of a complaint for electoral sabotage–a non-bailable offense–before the Department of Justice.
“If she won’t return, how can she be made answerable?” Aquino said.
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