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Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero maintained Tuesday that the impeachment process shall not begin immediately after the House of Representatives' endorsement of the complaint to the Senate.
Azcuna said."The reason is because the task assigned to the Senate by Art. XI of the Constitution is an exercise of a power altogether different from the legislative power. It is, in my view, A CONSTITUENT POWER. It is thus not subservient to the norms and constraints of legislative processes. It is governed by the sovereign mandate of the Filipino people as conferred and spelled out in Art XI," he stressed.
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