Leonen says he's currently 'not cut out' for chief justice
Published January 29, 2021 4:48pm
By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, one of the tribunal's most senior magistrates, on Friday said he believes he is currently "not cut out" for chief justice.
Leonen will be automatically nominated for chief justice when Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta retires in March, one year ahead of his mandatory retirement age.
"No comment yet," Leonen said when asked if he will accept. "I am honored to have been automatically nominated, but that is also a function of seniority."
"But of course in my mind I am looking at what I should do, and more likely, I am better at supporting a chief justice rather than being one. But as I said, no comment," he said at a press conference hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.