Detained Senator Leila de Lima says she is 'raring to work' as an opposition senator lawmaker and also spend more time with her family.
WISH FOR 2020. Detained opposition Senator Leila de Lima attends the hearing of her drug case inside the New Bilibid Prison court in March 2019. File photo courtesy of Office of Senator De Lima
"I hope that this is my last Christmas in detention so that my normal life as a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and as a duly-elected Senator be now restored," she said in a statement.over drug charges. "I’m raring to work fully and assiduously as a fiscalizing minority senator and focus on my chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development," De Lima said.
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