Marcos to comply with SC order for comment on medical report petition

Malacañang on Thursday said that it will comply with the Supreme Court's directive for President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to comment on the petition seeking the disclosure of his medical examination report.

This was according to Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Atty. Claire Castro.

''Kung utos po ng Supreme Court iyan ay gagampanan po, gagawa po ng comment,'' Castro said.

(If this was the directive of the Supreme Court, we will abide by it and draft our comment.) 

On Wednesday, the High Tribunal said it had acted on the petition of Pantaleon Alvarez, Virgilio Garcia, Juan Raña, and Raymundo Junia against the President and Executive Secretary Ralph Recto as respondents. 

"The SC, without necessarily giving due course to the petition, directed respondents to comment within a non-extendible period of 10 days from receipt of notice," the SC said.

Alvarez's camp had filed a petition for a writ of mandamus directing Marcos to submit himself to physical and mental examination, including a hair follicle drug test. 

The petition sought to direct the President to disclose the medical report indicating the results of the examination, including medical and clinical confirmation of his physical and medical fitness to discharge his powers and duties as president.

The President has since maintained that he is in good health and denied rumors that he is "severely sick." —VAL/VBL, GMA News