"By tagging me as enemy of the state in her "Paglaban sa Kataksilan" video documentary, Gloria is looking for scapegoats for her monumental blunders, egregious violations of the Constitution, and laws to avoid culpability for looting the public treasury," he said.

Pimentel said the attempt to portray him as a destabilizer and enemy of the state is aimed at defaming his reputation and at curtailing his task to criticize and check wrongdoing in government.

"I deny that I am a destabilizer and traitor to the nation. All my life as a politician has been devoted to upholding the rule of law. To call for accountability of even the highest official of the land cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be called a destabilization," he said.

While admitting that he has called for the President’s resignation, he has publicly repudiated extraconstitutional means of changing the government.

"No amount of threats or intimidation will terrorize me into silence. And there is no way I will take this lying down," Pimentel said.