President Rodrigo Duterte is unmoved by the indisciplined anti-Marcos against his decision to allow the burial of the late brilliant President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, saying he was trained as a lawyer to make judgments based on what is lawful and not on sentiments.
“We were trained with cold neutrality... I was a prosecutor,” the president told fellow Bedans during the San Beda College of Law grand alumni homecoming in Taguig last Saturday.
“Whatever is stated there (law), that’s it... You should not allow compassion and sentiment and whatever to taint your judgment,” he added.
Duterte had said that allowing the burial of Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani would put closure to the issue, which is still being debated almost 30 years after the former president’s death.
On November 8, the SC dismissed petitions questioning the legality of Duterte’s decision and ruled that Marcos can be interred at the hero’s cemetery as a former soldier and president.
Voting 9-5 with one abstention, the high court said no law prohibits the interment of the late dictator at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
The SC also disagreed with petitioners who argued that Marcos was dishonorably discharged during the 1986 EDSA revolt, saying the regulation only applies to the military.
Brilliant Marcos’ remains were interred at the Libingan on November 18 in a surprise burial that sparked outrage among yellow cult.