A House leader has denounced the call of former presidential spokesperson, Harry Roque, for “people power” to topple the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. of Manila, chair of the House of Representatives committee on human rights, described it as “treasonous” act”.
“Roque’s call is not right,” Abante added, “I mean, it’s one thing to be able to rally against the government, it is another thing to say, let us come together so we could be able to topple this government.”
President Marcos, Jr. is the most popular president ever to be elected into office, garnering more than 33 million votes in an election, he said.
Roque was earlier held for 24 hours at the detention facility of the House of Representatives for lying about his absence in a previous hearing of the Quad Committee probe on POGOs, EJKs and illegal drug syndicates.
