De Lima confirmation from CA up in the air

MALACAÑANG is just as unfazed as Justice Secretary Leila de Lima whose confir–mation in the powerful Com–mission on Appointments (CA) remains up in the air amid the plunder charges she filed against some CA members in connection with the P10-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.

Deputy Presidential spokes–person Abigail Valte made the stance after Sen. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada vowed to block the appointments of de Lima and state auditor Heidi Mendoza—two key figures in the prose–cution team of the P10- billion PDAF mess—by citing Section 20 of the Rulebook of the CA wherein a CA member can oppose a certain appointment even for no reason.