Manila, Feb. 6 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday said the impeachment complaints filed against him before the House of Representatives did not prosper due to lack of basis.

Speaking to reporters in Malate, Marcos described the impeachment bid as mere "distractions" and a "political move."

"These things are distractions from the things that we are doing," Marcos said, when asked to react to the House Committee on Justice's decision to dismiss the two impeachment complaints against him for failure to meet the constitutional requirement of sufficiency in substance.

"Although I wasn't very worried because I saw the impeachment complaint and I knew that I will be all right in terms of the impeachment kasi wala naman (because t...