Opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes is facing yet another legal woes after the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office summoned him to answer the complaint for inciting to sedition and proposal to commit coup d’etat filed against him.
In a subpoena furnished to the Department of Justice, the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office through Assistant City Prosecutor Reynaldo Ticyado required the embattled senator to appear in hearing set at 1:30 pm today and submit his counter-affidavit or answer to the charges.
The preliminary investigation came after the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission commissioner Manuelito Luna and Department of Labor and Employment undersecretary Jacinto Paras filed the criminal cases against Trillanes.
Luna and Paras sought the indictment of Trillanes in their complaint filed last month over his “incendiary and hateful speeches against President Rodrigo Duterte after issuance of Proclamation 572 that voided the amnesty granted him during the previous administration.”
Trillanes was ordered to appear before the court and personally subscribe to his answer after he failed to appear in previous hearings.
Luna has accused the senator of destabilizing the government by allegedly convincing members of the uniformed service and the public to revolt against the Duterte administration.
Last Monday, the Makati RTC Branch 148 denied the DOJ’s motion for issuance of arrest warrant and hold departure order against the opposition senator but at the same time declared Proclamation 572 as valid.
The DOJ said it plans to file motion for partial reconsideration of the ruling before the RTC.