FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

IT is not this columnist’s business to prejudge the case of Juan Andres “Andy” Bautista, the embattled chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), accused by his own estranged wife of having made over P1 billion from illegal sources during the last presidential elections. My only concern as a citizen and journalist is that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should come out and that justice should prevail. There is no other legal way of making sure this happens except through impeachment. Bautista is an impeachable official, and therefore immune from suit for now, but he can be impeached for, and removed from office upon conviction of, culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes or betrayal of public trust.

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