On the President's clarification regarding the CA episode

Now that the President has clarified his statement, it's time to move on from the ugly Lopez episode in the Commission on Appointments.

While I do not regret my rejection vote as I will always maintain that I did the right thing based on my own evaluation and appreciation of the confirmation proceedings, I'm sorry that eventually, I was forced to bring out in the open the reasons why I decided to reject her confirmation.

I just felt that I needed to set the record straight, owing to the massive social media bashing and overreaction by the uninformed among our people who got carried away by massive disinformation and the noise created by what could have been a routine exercise of our constitutional mandate.