OUR Senate of 24 members is supposed to be the highest deliberative assembly in the land. It has just been reorganized with no clear explanation or pressing motive. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri of Bukidnon, in office for the past two years, has resigned, saying his failure to follow powerful blocs has compelled him to step aside.
He did not elaborate. He was promptly replaced by Sen. Francis 'Chiz' Escudero of Sorsogon, who admitted to exploiting minor cracks in Zubiri's leadership to push for the intended change. What we have now is a 'new Senate.
But if de la Rosa now belongs to the new majority, will he not still be in charge of his old committee and continue his highly controversial inquiry against his political target?In a previous column, I pointed out that under the Constitution, neither Congress nor any of its committees may investigate a sitting president of any alleged crime, unless he has first been impeached by the House of Representatives and is now being tried by the Senate as an impeachment court.
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