MANILA, Philippines Members of the Liberal Party, including those in the majority, will not be supporting impeachment complaints against President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Leni Robredo. <\/p>\n
Deputy Speaker Romero \"Miro\" Quimbo said on Thursday that 15 members of the party recently met with Robredo to discuss party-related administrative matters, as well as the issue on impeachment. Robredo is the highest elected member of the Liberal Party and an emerging opposition leader. <\/p>\n
\"The LP House majority caucus members present categorically took a position that we will not support any of the impeachment complaints filed against the leaders of the land,\" Quimbo said in a statement. <\/p>\n
In March, an impeachment complaint was filed by Magdalo party-list Gary Alejano against Duterte for possible violation of the Constitution in issues of maritime rights, engagement in bribery and \"other high crimes.\" <\/p>\n
In the same month, lawyer Oliver Lozano filed an impeachment complaint against Robredo for \"betrayal of public trust\" for sending a video message criticizing the president's war against drugs to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. <\/p>\n
Quimbo said that for the lower chamber of Congress to take up any of the impeachment complaints will only be \"divisive as well as polarizing.\" <\/p>\n
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\"It will only distract us from the many important matters that congress should be giving priority to,\" he added. <\/p>\n
In March, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, one of the leaders of the Liberal Party-led minority in the House, expressed resentment over an earlier statement of Quimbo that the party as a whole will not support Duterte's impeachment. <\/p>\n
\"There has been no meeting called by the Liberal Party leadership among its members in the House and in the Senate on the Duterte impeachment complaint,\" Lagman said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Lagman said Liberal Party members in the minority should have been consulted before the statement was released. <\/p>\n
READ: House opposition divided on Duterte impeachment <\/p>\n
Quimbo, meanwhile, reiterated an earlier remark that the party will continue its \"strongest commitment\" supporting Robredo. <\/p>\n
He also said that party members who are out of town will be informed of the decision in subsequent meetings before Congress reopens in May. <\/p>\n
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