Manila, Feb. 2 -- The House Committee on Justice on Monday clarified that the two impeachment complaints filed against President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. are sufficient in form, but the ruling does not mean approval and only allows the panel to proceed to weighing their substance.

In a press conference, leaders of the House Justice Committee stressed that the proceedings remain at a preliminary and strictly procedural phase and that it has yet to address the merits of the complaints.

"I just want to make it clear para sa mga kababayan natin, ang nabotohan po natin kanina (to the public that what we voted on earlier) was about the form," said FPJ Panday Bayanihan Party-list Rep. Brian Poe Llamanzares, vice chair of the panel.

"Gusto ko m...