No senator questioned the referral of the case by Senator Antonio Trillanes 4th the panel chaired by Sen. Panfilo Lacson. Senate Majority leader Vicente Sotto 3rd, Nancy Binay, Panfilo Lacson, Loren Legarda and Gregorio Honasan 2nd abstained from voting. Those who opposed were Senate President Aquilino Pimentel 3rd, Senators Joseph Victor Ejercito, Sherwin Gatchalian, Richard Gordon, Manny Pacquiao , Cynthia Villar, and Juan Miguel Zubiri. He said Lascañas’s confession proved that he lied under oath when he attended the hearing of the Senate committee on justice and human rights last year. The panel chaired by Gordon already came up with a report absolving Duterte from involvement in the extrajudicial killings in Davao City.

Source: Manila Times February 22, 2017 12:05 UTC