Yeah, yeah.

So it was never exclusively reserved.

From the very start, only 50% was reserved.

But when they passed it, they just put it to allow everything to be...

And then, but there was a problem because, uh, they, they said that you have to get, uh, uh, at least, uh, 2% before you are qualified-

Yung threshold, yeah.

And so out of, uh, let's say, uh, 60 members of, uh, the party-list sy- total party list, total reserved seats for party list system, only 12, 15 have been elected because they c- could not reach the three per- two or, uh, two or 3%.

So when I came in, I said, "We...

right favoritism maybe um let's talk about this justice so nasan on the field health issue on the on program funds um you have raised issues uh someone some buy in particular Local Government Support Fund, LGSF, right? Some people are saying, is this a soft pork barrel? Is this a shadow pork barrel? What's going on here,

Justice? Well, we already won the PhilHealth case.

The 60 billion that was transferred from PhilHealth has been returned.

We are working on the PDIC because PDIC transferred 107 billion and there is a soft promise to return it, but it was lodged in the unprogrammed funds of 2027 budget.

That means, I mean, it's just a wishful thinking because if it's unprogrammed, almost 99.9 percent it cannot be funded unless you transfer from the from other sources from other sources like phil health or from yeah so uh we will not be happy of course if they will not put it in the program appropriations you will go to the supreme court right ask the supreme and you're confident just like last time because there is no other way but to return that money because it's unconstitutional

that

if it's intelligence fund, it's okay.

But when it comes to confidential fund, there must be a special law because the Constitution says The people have a right to information on all matters of public concern.

When it comes to the West Philippine Sea, how is our situation? Specifically, when the president said about the issue of joint exploration, joint development, he still talks about it anyway.

Well, in the last year of the Duterte administration, the Philippines entered into an MOU, Memorandum of Understanding with China, where Philippines and China agreed that China will help in exploring and in exploiting the gas as a subcontractor.

Very specific that it will be under the service contract system of the government because under our service contract law, the first warehouse close in this subcontract system is that whereas the oil and gas belong to the Philippines, whereas there's also a provision that says the contract shall be governed by Philippine law.

China agreed, but at the last minute, China said, Wait a minute, pwede ba tanggalin natin yung two provisions? Whereas the oil and gas belong to the Philippines, whereas the contract is governed by the Filipino, tanggalin yun.

At that point, then Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teddy Boyloxin said, I cannot do that.

He terminated everything.

Ang problema niyan, if China will install the oil or gas platform and walang agreement that the oil and gas belong to the Philippines, China will install it and will not leave.

How do we, this Taiwan linkage dilemma, how do we do it?

So what is your read, Justice? Should we begin to prepare the Filipino people for some extraordinary developments?

Well, uh, the way I see it, my assessment is that the next move of China is to build on Scarborough Shoal because they have to do that before they actually invade, uh, Taiwan.

And they already announced, they made the first step.

Uh, they declared it a nature park, which means they'll have to man it.

They'll have to put the people there to, to operate, uh, the park.

That's already a violation of the 2002 declaration of the parties that, uh, no country can occupy an occupied features as of 2002.

They will be breaking that.

So it will be a right-wing Chavismo system.

What is your assessment so far? Dun sa grave threat, both from a legal and also in terms of public, um, appreciation, sa tingin niyo ba, Justice, enough has been done? After all, you only need one article, di ba, to get someone impeached.

Yeah.

Well, I, I would say m-more than enough has been done on that article.

Uh, you know, i-it's very difficult because it's on camera, eh.

So I remember the case of, uh, the son of that, uh, uh, newspaper publisher, Hearst, who, who joined the Symbiotic Army.

Uh, they, they rob a bank, and it-- there was a video taken of the robbery, and so how can, how can, how can you, uh, how can you defend yourself when you're caught on camera? Ito [laughs] the, ano, they, she, this, uh, the VP Sara was on camera.

How, how can you deny it? I-i-- So I remember the, the trial lawyer of the prosecutor at that time, uh, was about to retire, and so, uh, he was the chief prosecutor, so, uh, he took that job.

So what is your sense about this, uh, Justice Carpio? Where are we in that conversation of a unified candidate for the progressive centrist forces?

So Justice Carpio, from, [tsk] from one to Robin Padillo, gaano ka hypocritical [tumawa] and questionable itong stance ni Robin Padillo?

Well, uh, the-- I think the, the Chinese, uh, s- government used their scholars, uh, this was of course convened, uh, upon the election of the Chinese government to, to give us an irritant because we, we are about to enter into a sea boundary delimitation with, uh, Japan.

And, uh, they, they're mad that, uh, they are left out.

Uh, and, uh, so they, they, they thought of this to, to hit us back.

So, uh, it's really, uh, outrageous.

It's incredulous that they would claim Batanes because, uh, in the 1875 Carta General, the entire Batanes Islands are there with names, with depth soundings, and that's 1875.

And, uh, they're saying that we seized it from them in, uh, 1946.

What does it say about Robin Padilla, Justice? Dahil ang tingin niya sa sarili niya is a modern day Andres Bonifacio, right? Kung ang-- if there's anyone who's number one in cosplaying our national heroes, it's Robin Padilla, but is he a national hero by today's standards, Justice?

...in terms of how to count?

In Avelino, in Avelino, the court said if you are outside the coercive power of the Senate, uh, you will not be counted if you, uh, if you are abroad, 'no? So there, there, there is a pre-precedent and, uh, uh, I think that still holds.

And the recent ones are Trillanes versus Pimentel because Pimentel was detained under a non-bailable charge of coup d'état and he filed a case.

He reached the Supreme Court and Trillanes said, "I should be allowed to attend sessions." So here is a guy with a-- who has issued a warrant of arrest, no bail because coup d'état is non-bailable.

He's in jail now and he wants to attend sessions and to vote.

The court said, "The moment you are in judicial custody for preventive detention because of a, a crime, uh, you've been charged with a crime, you cannot hold office.

You cannot hold public office." Can you just imagine if he's a may-mayor and he holds office in jail? [laughs] If he says, "I can still function as a mayor," he will be, uh, entertaining visitors in jail.

That's, that's pretty serious stuff too, isn't it, uh, Justice?

Magiging chatroom na ba justice yung ano, yung majority? [laughs]

Dahil sa, sa ano, s- the war in, uh, the Strait of Hormuz, [laughs] eh, the, the, the lack of gas and oil.

So all of this, eh, wala namang ano yan eh.

Th- that's not relevant here.

Uh, well, they're preparing for, ano, the possibility that, uh, maaaresto talaga sila, and how do- will they vote if they are detained? Or like Bato, he is not going to surface, no? He's going to hide.

Uh, so they will not get a majority.

The pr- their problem is if there's a motion to, for example, sinabi na ni Congresswoman, uh, uh, Luistro that they will move for the subpoena of, uh, the bank records.

Like, uh, where does the, uh, Jimmy Bondoc school of legal, uh, doctrine come in?