The supermajority in the House of Representatives played the dual roles of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in sustaining insufficiency in form and substance of the Gadon impeachment complaint and rejecting the sufficiency in form of Jimenez/Mallari complaint.

This split personality charade tried to minimize the clear agenda of the supermajority of pursuing the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.

The strict standard used in finding the Jimenez/Mallari complaint insufficient in form should have also been the inflexible standard employed in the Gadon complaint where the complainant has also no personal knowledge of the allegations in his complaint, even as the attachments were mostly newspaper accounts which are considered hearsay, and the proffered “authentic documents” in fact belied sufficiency in substance of the grounds for impeachment in the complaint.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN