President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. insists he played no hand in the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte by a House dominated by his allies
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,” Marcos said in response to questions in a press conference that focused mostly on the latest— to do this, do that — that’s not the case at all. That’s not how it works,” he added. In the Philippines, the executive and the legislative are two separate co-equal branches, with the third being the judiciary.
Not to long ago in November 2024, Marcos told allies in an apparently leaked conversation that he did not think Duterte should be impeached because it “does not make a difference to even one single Filipino life.” Asked why they signed it even if Marcos himself was against an impeachment, Marcos said: “It’s already there.? And there was a very — clearly a large bloc in Congress at least 215 who wanted to file the impeachment. They did not file a case because I asked them not to. Now that the House has impeached Duterte, the Senate, according to the Constitution, must act on it. That means they’ll need to convene as an impeachment trial court.
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