VP Leni no hand in impeachment complaint vs.  Duterte

The spokesperson of Vice President Leni Robredo  on Friday denied allegations linking Robredo to the impeachment complaint filed on Thursday against President Rodrigo Duterte.

"Alam naman po ni VP Leni [Robredo] at alam ng karamihan na wala itong katotoohanan," spokesperson Georgina Hernandez told "Unang Balita" in an interview.

"Mismong si Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano ang nagsabi na Magdalo group lang ang nasa likod ng impeachment complaint, at malinaw naman na sinasabi niya na walang kinalaman si VP Leni [Robredo]...," she added.

Magdalo party-list Gary Alejano on Thursday filed the impeachment complaint with the Office of the Secretary General at the House of Representatives. 

In the complaint, he cited Duterte for culpable violation of the Constitution, engaging in bribery, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, and other high crimes.

Alejano, in a separate interview on Unang Balita, said Robredo was not aware that an impeachment complaint will be filed against Duterte. 

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, meanwhile, reiterated in an earlier interview that Robredo is behind the impeachment complaint.

"Ay maliwanag po na nakita po natin na kahit doon sa United Nations na nagpadala pa siya ng tape na sinasabi niya yung mga reklamo sa Pilipinas daw...," Alvarez told Unang Balita.

In a interview on QRT on Thursday Alvarez said, "Anything is possible kasi nga meron isang babae d'yan na nagmamadali na gustong pumalit sa ating Pangulo, pupuwede po na merong destabilization." 

Malacañang dismissed the impeachment complaint as a "dramatic" part of a "larger scheme of things" to destabilize the administration.

"However, having said that, it does seem like part of a larger scheme of things. Well, it just seems rather dramatic that everything seems to be so coordinated at this stage with acts of trying to...discredit the administration and trying to throw it in doubt," Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a news briefing on Thursday. —Marlly Rome C. Bondoc/LBG, GMA News