(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has junked a motion for reconsideration of its previous decision dismissing the petitions against the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Voting 10-5, Theodore Te, SC spokesperson, said the High Court denied the MR–filed by Senator Leila de Lima–which appealed the Nov. 8, 2016 decision that dismissed the petitions against Marcos’ burial in the Taguig cemetery for “absence of grave abuse of discretion.”
De Lima and six others had filed the petitions before the Supreme Court last year.
According to Te, concurring with the decision penned by Justice Diosdado Peralta were Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Lucas Bersamin, Mariano del Castillo, Jose C. Mendoza, Estela Perlas-Bernabe, Samuel Martires, Noel Tijam and Bienvenido Reyes Jr.
Maintaining their dissents from the original decision were Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, and Justices Marvic Leonen, Francis Jardeleza and Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa.
“Under the rules, each party is allowed only one MR. I would suppose upon lapse of the period (within which to file), (the decision to allow Marcos’ burial at Libingan ng mga Bayani) is final,” Te said.
Asked what the grounds were for the dismissal of the MR, Te said he had yet to get a copy of the resolution.
Marcos was buried at the Taguig cemetery on Nov. 18, 2016, or ten days after the SC junked all petitions against that act.
