Philippine Vice President, obstructed by the Chamber, faces a trial in the Senate – a public radio in South Carolina

Manila, Philippines – Philippine Vice President Sarah Duterte was prevented by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, after more than the required number of lawmakers, many of them allies of the president with whom she had a bitter political feud signed a petition to remove it from the office.

The Secretary -General of the House of Representatives, Reinald Velasco, told a plenary meeting of the lower house of Congress that at least 215 legislators had signed a petition for impeach Duterte, more than enough for the powerful house to impede it.

Sufficiently approved by the legislators of the Chamber, a complaint for the impeachment, handed over to the Senate, which will serve as a tribunal as an impeachment, who will try the Vice President, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, will try.

The Vice President, who did not immediately respond to the Chamber, moved to impeach it, and her father was politically contrary to President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and his camp, including a majority of home lawmakers.

The Vice President, considered a possible presidential candidate, after Marcos’ term ended in 2028, has been confronted with at least four appeals to impeachment by several legislators and left -wing activist groups on a number of issues.

They included a threat to the death that she made against the president, his wife and home chairman Martin Romualdes last year, irregularities in the use of her office intelligence funds and her inability to oppose Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.

Only the latest appeal against impeachment, the vice president’s accusation of violation of the Constitution, the transfer of public confidence, corruption and other high crimes and signed by 215 legislators will be sent to the Senate for its process, according to legislators.

Efforts for an impeach of the Vice President can be impeded by the lack of time. The chamber’s impeachment came on the last day of the Congress session, before the May In May Campaign in May, which will choose new legislators for the Chamber and the Senate. A special session can be held to allow the Senate to lead the Duterte in a quick process.

The Vice President’s legal problems have unfolded with the background of her ever -soaked political feud with the president and his allies. She told an online press conference on November 23 that she had infected a killer to kill Marcos, his wife and speaker Martin Romualdes, if she was killed, a threat she warned was no joke.

She later said she did not threaten him, but expresses concern for her own safety.

The house is investigating the alleged abuse of 612.5 million peso ($ 10.3 million) confidential and intelligence funds received from Duterte’s offices as Vice President and Secretary of Education. Since then, she has left the educational post after her political differences with Marcos has deepened.

She refused to answer questions in detail in the tense television hearing last year. Duterte also fiercely protested when her head of staff Zuleika Lopez was ordered temporarily detained for making it difficult to investigate. Since then, Lopez has been released from hospital detention.

Duterte accused Marcos, his wife and Romualdes in corruption, poor leadership and attempt to stab her for speculation that she could seek the presidency in 2028.

The National Investigation Bureau called on the Duterte last year to face investigators for her threats against them.

Police, military and national security adviser immediately strengthened the Marcos family’s security after threats.

Marcos and Duterte won a landslide victories as followers of the 2022 election, but since then they have fallen over key differences. The two offices are selected separately in the Philippines, which led to rivals holding the best political posts in the country.

Marcos and Duterte differ in their approaches to the territorial claims of China in the South China Sea and their views on the deadly drug repression, conducted by Duterte’s father, who was the previous president and former mayor of Dado.

The brutal repression of drugs from her father has left thousands mostly poor suspects in murder most of all by police investigating the International Criminal Court as a possible crime against humanity.

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