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Aguirre: De Lima 'inciting to sedition' with tirades vs Duterte

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/10/delima-aguirre.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Senator Leila de Lima and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II . <cite>Composite</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday said Senator Leila de Lima was already inciting to sedition with her latest tirades against President Rodrigo Duterte.&quot;Just a piece of unsolicited advise to her, from someone she referred to as a mediocre lawyer, she should be careful about her statements, she was already inciting to sedition earlier,” Aguirre said in a statement.Aguirre issued the warning against De Lima after the senator called Duterte a &quot;serial killer&quot; who should be forced out of office.De Lima invoked the rationale behind the &quot;People Power&quot; revolution that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos three decades ago, in her strongest comments yet against Duterte. &quot;There is no more doubt that our president is a murderer and sociopathic serial killer,&quot; De Lima told reporters. She also urged Duterte&#x27;s Cabinet to declare him unfit to lead, which may prompt a chain of events leading to Vice President Leni Robredo taking over. De Lima said the Constitution allows for a majority in his Cabinet to force Duterte to step down by ruling that he was physically incapacitated. She also referred to the mass uprising that ousted the Marcos dictatorship.&quot;Now the time has come again for us to be brave and stand up to another criminal dictator and his evil regime,&quot; De Lima said.She also compared Duterte to Batman&#x27;s foe, the Joker, saying the president was also a &quot;psychotic murderer&quot; who led other villains in committing crimes.The government last week charged De Lima, a former national human rights commissioner, with orchestrating a drug trafficking ring when she was justice secretary in the previous administration.Aguirre said De Lima must instead face her cases before the courts.&quot;As a former Secretary of Justice, Senator de Lima should know that the real battle is in the courts. She should do the fighting there, answer all the charges against her there and present credible evidence in her defense there and not in a press conference,” Aguirre said. – with Agence France-Presse

MANILA – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday said Senator Leila de Lima was already inciting to sedition with her latest tirades against President Rodrigo Duterte.

MANILA – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday said Senator Leila de Lima was already inciting to sedition with her latest tirades against President Rodrigo Duterte.