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...Courts are supposedly independent, institutional checks and balances. Some are saying that maybe this setback is a kind of a balancing act on the part of the forces in charge.

But the argument there is, I mean it's quite conspiratorial, but our argument is this is part of some sort of balancing situation there.

But yun nga yung fear ng iba. Again, we don't have direct evidence for it. But the fear ng iba is that madama ito dun sa RIF.

If the RIF goes all the way, then maybe there'll be much more comfort level of fully aligning or bringing in a lot of former liberal, progressive, whatever, assuming the other part.

But if the powers that be feel comfortable that the RIF can be resolved, then maybe the whiff of reforms will just remain as a whiff.

Now putting that aside, let's just look at the legal aspect of this very quickly, dun sa mga documents na nakita natin.

Ayon dun sa Muntinlupa Court, dito sa kaso, ayon sa kanila, considering the foregoing and after careful review of the totality of the prosecution's evidence,

and let's keep in mind, marami dun sa mga witnesses na may essentially backed out.

Considering all of that dito, ang contention ng court is the evidence of guilt against all the above named accused for the crime of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading is quote strong.

So that's their basis to deny her the bail and that of course raises some concerns like okay, so what's gonna happen next?

Now we had an update just a few hours ago on the situation of Leyla de Lima.

Again as I said, the Leyla de Municia is, it's unfortunately becoming kind of like a litmus test of the direction of the bigger political landscape.

Again, that's one way of looking at it, but ours would of course contend that courts are completely independent, it has nothing to do with politics, etc.

Everyone's free to make their own point of view, right?

But technically speaking, our courts are supposed to be independent, right?

Now kanina, the office of the court administrator required the Muntinlupa Court hearing regarding ex-Senator Leyla de Lima's remaining drug case to finish the trial within nine months.

Alright?

So what's happening here is at least there's growing pressure and momentum towards the resolution of the issue once and for all.

Kasi antagal na ito, antagal na ito eh, antagal na ito mga kameta.

I mean this is crazy, this is crazy.

If talagang may evidence, talagang strong yung evidence, why all these years, andito pa niya sa situation niyan?

At at all this time she has been, she's not convicted of everything.

These are all accusations, these are court cases, and yet she has been spending time incarcerated.

I mean this is crazy, alright?

So now at least there's a pressure to resolve this as soon as possible.

So within the second year of President Marcos Jr., more or less magkakaalaman na ano mangyari dito.

Again, as I said, this is important because many are looking at this, whether rightly or not,

because of course technically speaking our courts are independent from the political dynamics,

but many are looking at this as the litmus test of the overall state of affairs,

especially in human rights, democracy, et cetera, and tolerance of the opposition under the current president.

And my sense is if, assuming that's the case,

then that cannot be also separated from some of the internal intra-coalition dynamics and politics na pinag-usapan natin kanina.

Alright, mga kameta?

Alright, eto na lang. Last case na yung laban kay Leyla.

So if ma-clear na ito, hindi binigyan ng bail, pero kung ma-clear na ito within the next nine months,

then we can look at the very major political event here.

Alright?

So, this is tricky. This is a very tricky situation.

Talagang ang hirap ng situation sa Pilipinas kasi ang gulo eh.

Diba? Two steps forward, one step back, and then two steps back, one step forward,

three steps forward, four steps back. Ang gulo.

It's really hard to see where exactly the Philippines is today,

despite the fact that we saw some recalibration here and there.

But it's still a very fluid situation, mga kameta.

So it's very hard to still make a final judgment on what is the overall direction of things domestically

dun sa first year ni Marcos Jr.

But I would say, dun sa foreign policy, I think the direction is more or less clear.

But even having said that, I'm convinced that Marcos Jr. is not fully aligned with the U.S. yet

and still he's looking for an exit ramp.

If China offers him and the Philippines something interesting and enticing

in the coming months and years.

Alright. Maraming salamat mga kameta for your kind comments na hindi ko pa nakita.

Wait lang.

Pero nga, ang tagal talaga itong kaso na ito eh.

So it went through the whole gamut of the Duterte era.

But now the Duterte era is over but the dynamics is still there, right?

So, let's see. Let's see.

Let's see.

Kung talaga may ebidensya, dapat na-resolve na yan. Bakit ganon?

So the last thing you want to happen here is she will be kept behind bars

or deprived of her freedom on blah blah blah

because the trial is just going blah blah blah, right?

Nothing's happening.

So, let's see.

We also hope and let's just hope that the political rift situation at the top

hindi itong madamay dun sa vortex na yan.

Let's just hope there.

Or whatever happens there, it will eventually have either neutral effect or good effect, right?

In terms of some of the developments that we want to see in other aspects of the Philippines, right?

Okay.

On that note, thank you very much mga kameta and talk to you soon.

God bless.