(UPDATE) SENATE President Francis Escudero on Saturday said there would be no special session while Congress is in recess to try the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte, saying such a session would be unconstitutional.
SENATE President Francis Escudero on Saturday said there would be no special session while Congress is in recess to try the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte, saying such a session would be unconstitutional. Escudero issued the statement a day after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he was open to calling a special session if the senators requested one.The Senate president said the law specifies the circumstances under which a special session can be called.
Joel Chua, one of the prosecutors in the upcoming trial, said if Duterte resigned, the trial should continue despite views by former Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio that the trial is over if she leaves her post.'Assuming for the sake of argument she resigned, of course, removal from office is useless, but we have a prayer which is the issue of perpetual disqualification, and for this alone, I believe, the trial should continue,' Chua said.
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