Press Release
September 25, 2013

STATEMENT OF SENATE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN M. DRILON

"I have yet to see that letter mentioned by Senator Estrada. But if the insinuation is that the Department of Budget and Management and I gave out additional PDAF funds as incentives to those who voted to convict then Chief Justice Renato Corona, that is not true.

In fact, after his privilege speech, Senator Estrada told me at the Senator's lounge that he did not mean to say that the additional PDAF was a "bribe".

Estrada said that he was standing by his decision to convict Corona and he was not influenced by any supposed incentive. He said the additional PDAF "came after the fact of the conviction".

I maintain that the Senators voted according to their conscience and their impartial evaluation of the evidence presented during the Coronal trial."

I maintain that the Senators voted according to their conscience and their impartial evaluation of the evidence presented during the Coronal trial."

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