Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV walks out of Senate plenary after verbal smackdown with Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile

InterAksyon.com reports that on Wednesday, September 19, "Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV walked out of the Senate plenary after Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile grilled him on reports of his back-channeling role between the Executive and the Chinese government, later calling him the ’Phantom of the Opera of Philippine Politics.’"

According to the report, "Enrile turned the tables on Trillanes after the latter accused the Senate chief of trying to railroad the bill dividing Camarines Sur province and linking this to a call made to Enrile by former president and current Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo."

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