SENATE President Aquilino Pimentel 3rd on Tuesday said that he was willing to listen to the Supreme Court (SC) in case it would decide that it has jurisdiction over the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno but added that as of the moment, he did not see any legal basis for such an action.

In a radio interview ahead of the SC en banc session scheduled on Tuesday, Pimentel said that although he did not see the quo warranto petition as a legal means of removing a sitting chief justice, he would like to see the argument of the justices in case they ruled in favor of the petition.

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