MANY ARE WILLING: Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro (left), head of the House prosecution panel, introduces to the public veteran litigator Lorna Kapunan (right) as one of an initial 10 volunteer private prosecutors for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. Luistro says many more want to help her team. —Screengrab from an ABS-CBN NEWS Facebook page
MANILA, Philippines — Instead of the “bloodbath” she claimed she was eager for when she was first impeached last year, Vice President Sara Duterte now seems to prefer a “bubble bath,” based on her response to the charges, a private prosecutor in her imminent trial said on Thursday.
Veteran litigator Lorna Kapunan, one of the 10 volunteer lawyers who will assist the 11-member House prosecution panel, supported a statement by the prosecutors’ spokesperson, Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, who said that the defense strategy was to evade a hearing of the case against the first Philippine Vice President to ever be impeached twice.
“If we remember, she said before, to quote a previous, maybe longtime statement, that there would be a bloodbath that would occur. But where is that bloodbath? What I can see, personally, is that it is a bubble bath, not a bloodbath,” Kapunan said during a news conference.
