Since her arrest and detention in February 2017, her staff – from a list pre-approved by the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center – goes to Camp Crame to give her updates on legislative work or the news through clippings. Local courts in Muntinlupa are handling her cases, and she needs judges’ permission every time she has to participate in an event outside prison. Then-president Benigno Aquino III granted him amnesty in 2010, but President Rodrigo Duterte revived the cases in an unsuccessful attempt to jail his fierce critic.ĭe Lima continues to fight two remaining charges of conspiracy to commit drug trading, having been acquitted of the first of the three charges in February. Antonio Trillanes IV ran and won in the Senate race in 2007 while he was imprisoned for rebellion and coup d’etat charges. It woud not be the first time for someone to seek a Senate seat from a jail cell.
Everything I have fought for would go to waste if I would turn my back on the call to run again.) I was even more motivated to work harder to bring back the justice you have trampled on. (Sending me to jail only strengthened my resolve. Walang silbi ang lahat ng pakikipaglaban ko sa talamak mong pamamalakad kung uurong lang ako sa hamon ng pagtakbo muli,” said De Lima. Dumoble ang aking pagsisigasig na ibalik ang hustisyang niyurakan mo.
The senator announced her reelection bid as early as July, t hrough an open letter addressed to President Rodrigo Duterte, where she told her foe: Ang pagkulong mo sa akin ay lalong nagpalakas sa akin.
“I will not let prison and persecution stand in the way of the fight against Duterte’s evil regime,” the senator earlier said upon accepting the nomination of the Liberal Party (LP) as one of its senatorial candidates. Reelectionist senator Leila de Lima will have to pull a rare feat of campaigning from jail and seek a second six-year term at the Philippine Senate, nearly five years since her arrest over what she and her supporters called “trumped-up” drug charges.ĭe Lima, through her representative, filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the Senate on the last day of filing on Friday, October 8.
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