Senate minority, iginiit na dapat simulan na agad ang impeachment trial ni VP Sara Duterte

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00:00The Supreme Court petitioned some allies of the Duterte family to stop the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.

00:08Senate Minority Leader Coco Pimentel wrote to Senate President Chis Escudero and asked for the impeachment trial to start immediately.

00:17We have first news, Ma'am Gonzales.

00:20In the last session of February 5, the articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte were transmitted to the Senate.

00:30Senate President Chis Escudero said that they cannot start the impeachment trial while the session of Congress is on break.

00:38But in the letter of Senate Minority Leader Coco Pimentel to Escudero, he insisted that the impeachment trial should be conducted immediately by the Senate.

00:45In the letter, the provision of the Constitution stated that the Senate should conduct an impeachment trial forthwith if the articles of impeachment from the Camera are received.

00:55It means forthwith, immediately.

00:58Senator Risa Ontiveros confirmed this.

01:01It is clear to us that once the articles of impeachment are transmitted to us, like what happened, we will immediately convene.

01:10Escudero has nothing to do with this.

01:13Senator Aimee Marcos said that the articles of impeachment from the Constitution were not transmitted immediately and that there is a petition from the Supreme Court related to this.

01:21If the impeachment trial already started, she will not be inhibited even if she is a friend of Vice President.

01:27I don't think it's necessary.

01:29We are fully aware of our duties as senators and we'll study all the evidence that will be provided and rule and vote on all that.

01:42Senator Bato de la Rosa will also wait for the decision of the Supreme Court.

01:47I think the Supreme Court can interpret the Constitution.

01:51If they give the right interpretation of the Constitution, I think the Supreme Court will direct us to do our job.

02:00As said by our Senate President, we will do that job at the proper time.

02:08There are two petitions from the Supreme Court.

02:10Last Friday, one petition was submitted asking the Senate to immediately start the impeachment trial.

02:17The court gave the Senate 10 days to comment on this.

02:38We are waiting for the Senate to comment on this.

02:41The petition was also submitted to the Supreme Court by the allies of the Duterte family.

02:45They asked for an impeachment complaint against Vice President and for the Senate to prohibit this.

02:51According to Atty. Israeli Totorion, the impeachment complaint is defective

02:56because it violated the provision that only one impeachment complaint can be submitted to an official within a year.

03:04Three impeachment complaints have already been submitted to the Senate against Vice President

03:09and the one-year ban should have already been lifted.

03:12The fourth impeachment complaint that was submitted to the Senate was a verified impeachment complaint.

03:17Vice President Duterte was not given due process and the congressmen were not given the right time to study the impeachment complaint.

03:26There was only around three hours between 12 o'clock to 3.15 before it was included in the additional house business reference.

03:37By that time, we feel and we have reasons to believe that some of the congressmen were not even able to peruse the complaint

03:49as well as assess the evidences attached in the impeachment complaint.

03:53We also asked for a comment from the camera.

03:55According to the spokesperson of the Supreme Court, they will immediately act on the petition.

04:00In these petitions, the Supreme Court acts on the matter by either requiring the parties to comment on the petition.

04:07This is the first news. Mav Gonzalez for GMA Integrated News.

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