Socrates Villegas

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, a leader of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution, slammed the Senate on Thursday for moves purportedly meant to derail the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte and cover the supposed crimes of Sen. Ronald dela Rosa.

“It is obscene. It is unbelievable that men and women called ‘honorable’ could do such a brazen exercise of power,” Villegas, a former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said in a pastoral letter on Thursday.

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