Trillanes calls colleagues ‘wimps,’ ‘lapdogs’ | Inquirer

Trillanes calls colleagues ‘wimps,’ ‘lapdogs’

By: - Reporter /
/ 05:00 AM July 04, 2017

Sen. Antonio Trillanes estimony on the extrjudicial killings. INQUIRER PHOTO / GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV (File photo by GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE / Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Wimps. Lapdogs.

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV used these words to describe his colleagues, accusing them of failing to fulfill the Senate’s duty to serve as a check-and-balance system to the executive branch.

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“The Senate is the last bastion of democracy but not anymore,” Trillanes said at a news forum in Manila.

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“We are like lapdogs of this administration who don’t even like to investigate into its abuses because we are scared,” he added.

Trillanes’ statements on Monday drew mixed reactions from colleagues.

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Sen. Panfilo Lacson, an independent, said Trillanes was out of touch with reality if he was not hallucinating so much.

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“I don’t know where he is coming from and I’m not even sure if he is still rational in his thinking. But one thing I am sure about, he is dead wrong,” Lacson said.

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“Calling one’s own colleagues as ‘cowards’ and ‘puppets’ wholesale and without qualifying is the darndest thing he can do,” he added.

Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III refused to comment.

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