Presidential Spokesperson and concurrent
Presidential Legal Counsel just ha enough and is now making his counter move ad
against some media outfit.
Online news outlets Inquirer.net and
Rappler may soon be facing libel charges for publishing reports claiming that
Presidential Spokesperson Atty. Salvador Panelo “recommended” or “endorsed” the
granting of executive clemency for convicted rapist-murderer, former Calauan
Mayor Antonio Sanchez.
Panelo said he
will be filing appropriate libe complaints against the two news outfits for their
“malicious reports which are meant to discredit him.
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| Atty. Salvador Panelo (photo credit to owner) |
Inquirer.net used the word
“recommended” while Rappler used the word “endorsed” when Panelo insisted he
only referred the letter to the appropriate agency or department.
“I’m filing a libel case against
Inquirer.net and Rappler for publishing these malicious articles immediately,”
Panelo said in a media interview on Tuesday but did not give an exact date when
to file the charges.
Because of the words used in the
report, Panelo said, “people are saying now that I really did something about
the so-called release.”
The
Presidential spokesperson reiterated that he merely wrote a letter to the Board
of Pardons and Parole (BPP) to act on the request of Sanchez’s daughter, Marie
Antonelvie, to grant her father pardon but “never recommended anything.”
“The application was referred to the
Bureau of Pardons and Parole [sic] for their evaluation. We have nothing to do
with it. But then they’re writing an article saying I recommended, I did not,”
Panelo said.
He said he asked both Inquirer.net and
Rappler to correct their reports but they have not tried to do so.
“I demanded rectification from NetInquirer
(Inquirer.net) but I have not received any report from them. I sent a text
earlier just before the press briefing. I also texted Pia (Ranada of Rappler)
and I told her no intervention, I explained to her but she has not responded.
She just said ‘got it.,’” Panelo said.
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