President Benigno Aquino 3rd is not meddling with the Senate despite relaying to Senate President Franklin Drilon a request of Vice President Jejomar Binay to end its inquiry into allegations of corruption against him, a Palace official said on Thursday.

“President Aquino was simply expressing his views on the appropriate mechanisms for ferreting out the truth and for exacting accountability in a manner consistent with law,” Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a statement.

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