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  • Philippine vice president impeached

    Philippine vice president impeached

    Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte will face trial in the Senate after she was impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

    House Secretary-General Reginald Velasco was ordered to transmit the impeachment complaint to the Senate after the House secured 215 signatures.

    This is more than the required one-third of the House membership to impeach Duterte, advancing the process to the Senate for trial.

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    Duterte said she would not comment for now, and wants to read the documents before making comments.

    Under the constitution, the Senate has the sole power to try and decide all cases of impeachment, with senators as judges.

    The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial.

  • Philippines VP publicly threatens to have president assassinated

    Philippines VP publicly threatens to have president assassinated

    The Philippines’ Security Council will verify an alleged assassination threat by Vice-President Sara Duterte against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, a top official said yesterday, describing it as a “matter of national security”.

     Ms Duterte, in a strongly worded morning briefing on Nov 23, said she spoke with an assassin and instructed him to kill Marcos, his wife and the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, if she were to be killed.

    National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano said the government considers all threats to the President as “serious”, vowing to closely work with law enforcement and intelligence communities to investigate the threat and possible perpetrators.

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     “Any and all threats against the life of the President shall be validated and considered a matter of national security,” Ano said in a statement.

    The Presidential Communications Office, citing the Justice Ministry, said Ms Duterte’s threats are now under investigation and may lead to charges.

     “If the evidence warrants, this could lead to eventual prosecution,” Marcos’ office said in a statement.

    Ms Duterte’s threat stemmed from an order by lawmakers to transfer her chief-of-staff to a jail for allegedly impeding a probe over the Vice-President’s alleged misuse of public funds.