MANILA, Philippines — The Home of Representatives has licensed its Committee on Ethics and Privileges to evaluate the “inappropriate” statements by Quezon Metropolis 4th District Rep. Jesus Manuel Suntay on actress Anne Curtis which he made throughout a listening to on the impeachment fees towards Vice President Sara Duterte.
Laguna 1st District Rep. Ann Matibag, chairman of the Committee on Ladies and Gender Equality, requested that the matter be referred to the Home Committee on Ethics and Privileges.
Suntay later spoke on the plenary, saying in Filipino and English, “I’ve already defined and I respect the sentiments of my colleagues right here however I repeat, throughout the hearings, I used to be arguing on rules that legal professionals and legislators ought to know” which was that an individual “can’t be held answerable for mere ideas, imaginations, or associations with out an overt act.”
“However like I stated, the analogy might need been in unhealthy style and had been taken within the fallacious context. […] However like I stated, and I’ve repeated many occasions, there was no malice supposed and if there was malice deduced […], I want to apologize to these affected and harm”, he stated.
Suntay stated in a radio interview earlier on Wednesday that “it was an imaginary scenario. It was a fictitious scenario. I’ve not even seen Anne Curtis in particular person however I’ve seen her on TV.”
He stated when he spoke on the plenary on Wednesday night, “My file on ladies’s welfare is actual. The gender and improvement code and the” Bawal Bastos Ordinance “which I authored in Quezon Metropolis weren’t small achievements.”
He stated additional on that “we must always have a look at the particular person by his actions and never mere statements. I feel there is no such thing as a good particular person right here.”
San Juan Rep. Ysabel Zamora moved to refer Matibag’s speech to the Home Committee on Ethics and Privileges “for its applicable motion.” There was no objection and her movement was permitted.
Zamora then moved to authorize the Home Committee on Ethics and Privileges to schedule a gathering to “conduct an intensive evaluation on the actuations and statements of” Suntay “relative to the query of privilege of” Matibag.
There was no objection and the movement was permitted.