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By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published July 3, 2021 3:52pm
“The reality is that the players were independent republics of various sizes, with interests and goals of their own. Some of them had actual skin in the game,” says Florin Hilbay. Former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay slammed retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio for claiming that there were factions between advisers of former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in the 2013 arbitration case against China, which led to the landmark victory for the Philippines. In a five-page response to Carpio’s Philippine Daily Inquirer column, Hilbay said he read the former SC justice’s piece with “amusement” and “disappointment” as he pointed out the “falsehoods” and “inaccuracies” in the former magistrate’s claims.