Magdalo party-list representative Gary Alejano on Thursday filed a supplemental impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte for allowing the continued Chinese encroachment in the country’s territorial waters. Duterte committed betrayal of public trust when he failed to assert the country’s exclusive sovereign rights and territorial claims on Benham Rise and West Philippines Sea (South China Sea), respectively, said Alejano. The congressman, a native of Negros Occidental, further claimed the President did not act when China sent survey ships to Benham Rise, which is part of the Philippine continental shelf.

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