![]() Meanwhile, Senator Francis Tolentino, who offered to stand as legal counsel for a fellow lawmaker in the ICC probe, advised Dela Rosa to “Just chill”. That would be too blatant an interference and they would be treating us like fools,” he added. “There’s going to be big trouble if they would insist on coming here against our government’s expressed will. “If it’s the government of the Philippines that would decide to arrest me, what can I do? But if they (ICC) would come here to take me, our government would have none of that.” “There’s no problem if the Philippine government would be the one to arrest me, but not the foreigners,” he said. The ICC’s Appeals Chamber voted 3-2 on Tuesday to deny the Philippines’ appeal to stop the ICC Office of the Prosecutor from resuming its investigation. Here in the Philippines, the process is they must coordinate with the local courts,” Zubiri said. ![]() However, the danger there is if Senator Bato dela Rosa goes to a country that is friendly to the ICC, then they will arrest him. “We are still a sovereign country, and they (accused) are still citizens of this country. If they have a warrant of arrest, let them serve the warrant,” Dela Rosa said, with one caveat - that he’ll only allow himself to be arrested by Philippine authorities and not by any foreigner ordered to do so by the ICC.ĭela Rosa was responding to a statement of Senate President Miguel Zubiri that the government will have no choice but to turn over anyone to the ICC if the arrest warrant will be coursed through local courts and will be served by local authorities. Let them, let them do what they want,” Dela Rosa said in Filipino in an interview with Frontline Tonight. ![]() “I already expected that, their insistence on meddling in our domestic affairs. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa warned of “big trouble” if the International Criminal Court comes to the Philippines to arrest him or anyone else. ![]()
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