SC puts last nail on coffin against transfer of Marcos remains out of ‘Libingan’

THE Supreme Court (SC) has put the last nail on the coffin and finally laid to rest the issue on exhuming the body of former president Ferdinand Marcos from Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) when it denied with finality motions for reconsideration on the transfer and burial of his remains elsewhere, a Supreme Court source privy to the draft of the decision told The Manila Times.

At the en banc deliberations on Tuesday, majority of the magistrates dismissed the petitions filed by Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay; Loretta Ann Pargas-Rosales, former human rights chairman; former Sen. Heherson Alvarez; Zaira Patricia Baniaga; Algamar Latiph; and Sen. Leila De Lima.