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Associate Judge Lucas Bersamin, the third most senior magistrate of the Supreme Court, has always voted in favor of the policies of the Duterte administration.
NEW JUSTICE IN CHIEF. President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen Lucas Bersamin as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. PIO photo of the Supreme Court
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (SC) Lucas Bersamin as Chief Justice.
The Secretary of Justice, Menardo Guevarra, confirmed this information to the rapper on Wednesday, November 28.
With his choice, Duterte goes against his own statement that he would choose the next magistrate according to his seniority. The senior judge of the Supreme Court, Antonio Carpio, Associate Senior Judge, strongly differed from Duterte's approach in the western part of the Philippine Sea.
Bersamin, the third oldest, is expected to retire in October 2019. (READ OUT: Who is the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lucas Bersamin?)
Yet Malacañang insisted on Wednesday that Bersamin is "the oldest in the Supreme Court in terms of services rendered under the judiciary in various capacities. "
The president's spokesperson, Salvador Panelo, said Bersamin had presided over the Quezon City Regional Court of First Instance for 17 years and the Court of Appeal, for 6 years, before being appointed associate judge. at the High Court in 2009.
Panelo said that Malacañang was confident that Bersamin and the new associate judge Rosmari Carandang "will continue to defend judicial excellence, assert its independence and act decisively against the lost members of the seat, the bar and the judiciary. "
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Bersamin wrote the controversial Security Council decision acquitting the former president and now President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of looting. He also drafted the judgment authorizing the accused Juan Ponce Enrile to pay bail.
He also expressly voted in favor of acquitting Jinggoy Estrada, but was beaten with a narrow victory over the looting charges against the former senator.
He dealt a heavy blow to the administration of Benigno Aquino III as the ponente of the decision canceling parts of the Program of acceleration of disbursements (DAF), considered unconstitutional.
In the Duterte administration, Bersamin has always voted in favor of the President's policy of Firebrand.
He voted in favor of the burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos's hero, declared constitutional martial law of Duterte in Mindanao and acknowledged that the arrest of Senator Leila de Lima for drug charges was valid .
Bersamin was also one of the judges who voted in favor of ousting former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno through a query in quo warrant.
Bersamin's latest ponencia has downgraded the charges against developer Delfin Lee, which allowed him to post bail in the Asian Globe scam, worth $ 7 billion. ; euro.
He has flip-flopped controversially in the labor case against Philippine Airlines (PAL), a decision that SC Deputy Chief Judge Marvic Leonen has described as "underhanded" in the High Court. Bersamin had even written ponencia.
On 2 October 2009, Bersamin subscribed to the special decision of the 3rd Division of the SC that the dismissal of PAL on 5,000 of its workers had been invalidated.
Nine years later, in 2018, he turned around stating that PAL's dismissal was valid and even quashing SC's decision on the bench. – with a report from Lian Buan / Rappler.com
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