Trillanes says he'll leave Senate compound only when amnesty issue is resolved

Despite assurances from security officials, including Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has no plans of leaving the Senate building until the issue on his amnesty revocation is cleared.

At a press conference Friday, Trillanes, who has been staying in the Senate building since his amnesty was voided by President Rodrigo Duterte last week, said this was the advice to him of his lawyers.

A former Navy officer who participated in military uprisings in the past, Trillanes said Duterte can always override the decision of Lorenzana.

"Ang gagawin nila dito, they will track me and then intercept me at some point and then take me in," he said.

"Pagkaganun nangyari, sasabihin ni Duterte na utos ko 'yan. Tapos na. Regardless of what somebody said earlier, whether it is Secretary Lorenzana."

Lorenzana had earlier said there is no order to arrest or trail Trillanes, after the senator said  plainclothesmen on a motorcycle had followed his vehicle when it went out of the Senate premises.

Trillanes, a fierce critic of Duterte, had challenged Proclamation 572, which voided his amnesty, before the Supreme Court. —KBK, GMA News