Negros Oriental Provincial Board Declares Trillanes Persona Non Grata after Confrontation with Jing Paras
The nine-member Negros Oriental Provincial Board have voted unanimously to ban Senator Antonio Trillanes IV from entering the province of Negros Oriental for ten years starting June 1, 2018.
On Wednesday, a day after Trillanes confronted former Negros Oriental 3-term 1st District Congressman and current labor undersecretary Jacinto “Jing” Paras, board chairman Ernesto Tevez called for an immediate session to resolve the issue locally.
Trillanes and Paras reportedly figured in a heated exchange inside the Senate on Tuesday.
The confrontation was caught by some members of the media at the Senate session hall before Tuesday’s session. The opposition senator was captured talking to Paras, who was beside Health Secretary Francisco Duque in the plenary hall’s VIP gallery.
But Trillanes denied intimidating Paras.
According to Trillanes, he approached Duque when Paras “suddenly” greeted him. The former congressman, an ally of President Duterte, was a member of the group which charged Trillanes for allegedly inciting to sedition for supposedly encouraging members of the military to shoot the President in a privilege speech.
Trillanes term will end next year and although he will have no major business entering the province, any major political return on 2022 will be a problem for him as he cannot campaign for himself or whoever he will endorse inside the province.
Negros Oriental is among the three provinces included in Marcos-Robredo electoral protest.
Trillanes has yet to comment on the said incident.
Paras, a lawyer and member of the Duterte-allied Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), helped put together the botched impeachment complaint against Commission on Elections chief Andres Bautista and filed a complaint against Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang for his supposedly "unlawful disclosure" of the Duterte family's bank transactions.
On Wednesday, a day after Trillanes confronted former Negros Oriental 3-term 1st District Congressman and current labor undersecretary Jacinto “Jing” Paras, board chairman Ernesto Tevez called for an immediate session to resolve the issue locally.
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The confrontation was caught by some members of the media at the Senate session hall before Tuesday’s session. The opposition senator was captured talking to Paras, who was beside Health Secretary Francisco Duque in the plenary hall’s VIP gallery.
But Trillanes denied intimidating Paras.
According to Trillanes, he approached Duque when Paras “suddenly” greeted him. The former congressman, an ally of President Duterte, was a member of the group which charged Trillanes for allegedly inciting to sedition for supposedly encouraging members of the military to shoot the President in a privilege speech.
Trillanes term will end next year and although he will have no major business entering the province, any major political return on 2022 will be a problem for him as he cannot campaign for himself or whoever he will endorse inside the province.
Negros Oriental is among the three provinces included in Marcos-Robredo electoral protest.
Trillanes has yet to comment on the said incident.
Paras, a lawyer and member of the Duterte-allied Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), helped put together the botched impeachment complaint against Commission on Elections chief Andres Bautista and filed a complaint against Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang for his supposedly "unlawful disclosure" of the Duterte family's bank transactions.
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