SC Justice Antonio Carpio (148th Justice of PH image) THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) on Tuesday endorsed the nomination of Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio for the chief justice position, which is now vacant following the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno through a quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG).

The lawyers’ group, led by its national president Abdiel Dan Elijah Fajardo, said the IBP’s Board of Governors endorsed Carpio for the top judiciary post.

“We are faced with the reality that the Supreme Court (SC) itself has set into motion the appointment of chief justice vice Ma. Lourdes P. A. Sereno. We thus support the return to, and the recognition of the wisdom, of the long-standing tradition of seniority in the appointment to the highest office of the judiciary, the Supreme Court Chief Justice,” Fajardo said in a statement.