DAVAO DEL NORTE Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez may be delisted as a marine reservist following his appeal to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to abandon President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., according to AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla.
In a public briefing, Padilla said Alvarez was a reservist in the Philippine Marine Corps, but was “not active as of this time.”
She also noted that when Alvarez made the ouster call, “he was not stating that in the capacity of being a reservist. He wasn’t in uniform and not really ‘yun ‘yung kinuha niyang personality when he spoke about this.”
“But in terms of the laws of the AFP, sa policies natin, meron naman po, in our Articles of War that can handle it, and he can be separated from the reservist; and delisted,” she added.
Padilla said that they have deferred the matter to “higher level works,” noting that the Department of Justice was already conducting an investigation into the issue.
During a rally with former President Rodrigo Duterte in Tagum City on Sunday, Alvarez called for the AFP’s withdrawal of support for Marcos amid the mounting tension in the West Philippine Sea.
