04/29/2011 | 04:08 PM
Senators on Friday thanked Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez for resigning from her post even before the impeachment trial began on May 9, but warned that this does not keep her safe from further scrutiny.
In separate statements, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Francis Escudero, and Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr.
thanked Gutierrez for "sparing" the country from a "tedious, divisive, and painful" impeachment process.
"I commend her for her statesmanship... for not anymore allowing our country to go through the painful process of impeachment," Escudero told GMA News Online in a text message on Friday.
"The resignation of Gutierrez will spare the country from the very tedious and divisive process of impeachment.