IT’S a travesty, a deliberate collective amnesia that reeks of intellectual dishonesty, and it has unfolded right before our eyes since the Supreme Court struck down on July 25 the Marcos-Romualdez project to prevent Vice President Sara Duterte from running for the presidency in 2028.
The so-called constitutional experts, those self-appointed guardians of the Philippine legal order, have conveniently forgotten — most likely deliberately buried — the most egregious crime at the heart of the impeachment saga against Duterte: the brazen bribery of congressmen to secure their signatures on that constitutionally infirm complaint.Let’s start with the elephant in the room. On July 29, 2025, Navotas Rep.
A former congressional staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal, recounted a late-night meeting in early December 2024 at a Makati hotel where envelopes stuffed with cash were distributed to lawmakers. “I saw it with my own eyes,” the staffer told a trusted colleague, who later relayed to this columnist. “They called it ‘incentive funding’ for the greater good, but it was bribery plain and simple.
Primordial Crime Of Bribery Of The Impeachment
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