ASEANEWS HEADLINE-VP Du30 IMPEACHMENT | MANILA: House to Senate: Wait for SC impeach appeal
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Senate should wait for House to exhaust all legal moves before acting on SC ruling on impeachment–s
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House of Representatives spokesperson, lawyer Princess Abante said. has expressed “deep concern” over the Senate’s plan to vote on the Supreme Court’s (SC) junking of the Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment complaint next week.
MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives is urging the Senate to wait for the Supreme Court to rule with finality on the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte before taking a vote on the high court’s order.
“We express deep concern over reports that the Senate may vote to act on the Supreme Court decision regarding the impeachment case against the Vice President without waiting for the House of Representatives to exhaust its available legal remedies,” House spokesperson Princess Abante said yesterday.
“Let us be clear: the decision of the Supreme Court is not yet final. The House of Representatives, as the body vested by the Constitution with the exclusive power and authority to initiate an impeachment, will file a Motion for Reconsideration soon,” she said.
“This is a matter of constitutional right and institutional integrity,” she added.
Akbayan party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña said 19 to 20 senators were reportedly eyeing to vote for the dismissal of the impeachment case against Duterte even without a trial, using the SC decision as
justification.
“There is an MR being filed by citizen petitioners in SC to reverse their decision. The Court must act on it first. Accountability and justice should not be left behind,” Cendaña said.
Abante, meanwhile, stressed that the Senate should allow the judicial process to run its full course, considering the seriousness of the issue and in light of possible factual errors that may have influenced the high tribunal’s initial ruling.
“For issues as transcendental as this – and especially when there appear to be factual errors upon which the legal conclusions were drawn – sheer prudence dictates that the Senate allow the Supreme Court to hear the House in its Motion for Reconsideration,” Abante said.
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“Any premature action – such as a Senate vote effectively abandoning the impeachment trial – may be interpreted as a disregard of due process. Worse, it may be construed as a political shortcut that undermines the constitutional role of the House,” she pointed out.
The House spokesperson stressed that the integrity of the impeachment process must be preserved at all costs.
“This is not just about the House or the Senate. This is about protecting our democratic institutions and upholding the system of checks and balances embedded in our Constitution,” Abante said.
“The House remains committed to the rule of law and will exhaust all legal remedies to protect its constitutional mandate – and to ensure that accountability is not casually brushed aside,” she maintained.
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Lingering doubts
For Sen. Erwin Tulfo, dismissing the impeachment case against the Vice President without trial would leave lingering doubts about her integrity.
Tulfo told radio dwIZ that he is willing to join Senators Francis Pangilinan, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros and Senate Minority Leader Vicente Sotto III in signing a draft resolution expressing the Senate’s sense that an impeachment trial should proceed.
“I will examine the message of the resolution of Senator Kiko. If it’s about getting an impeachment trial to proceed, why not? Why shouldn’t I sign it?”
He said he wants the camp of Duterte and her critics to present their respective cases and let the truth unfold before the eyes of the public.
“If her case gets dismissed without a trial and she gets elected as president, she will be marked and people will always think she is tainted,” Tulfo said in Filipino.
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“But if she’s able to clear her name fair and square in a trial, then the public gets satisfaction,” he added. “This is better than having her case dismissed without presenting evidence.”
“And if during a trial no substantive pieces of evidence against her are presented, then I will not hesitate to stand up and say ‘Mr. President, I’m pushing for the dismissal this case so we’ll not waste more time,’” Tulfo said.
Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa said disregarding the SC decision would only reveal that some lawmakers were bent on removing Duterte from office in defiance of the law.
“What’s this? First we were told the impeachment court should not decide on the constitutionality of the complaint, and just wait for the SC to decide. And now the SC has decided, and still they don’t want to comply,” Dela Rosa said.
“Now we know they have an agenda – and that is to have Inday Sara impeached. That’s what they really want,” he said.
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IBP’s call
‘Defying’ SC’s ruling on unconstitutionality of impeach raps vs VP Sara ‘erodes legal order’ – IBP
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The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), for its part, has appealed to the public to respect the “authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution.”
“As the final arbiter of constitutional questions, the Supreme Court bears the solemn duty to interpret the law, determine its bounds and clarify its implications even when it revisits past doctrines or addresses new contexts. This authority is rooted in checks and balances: the very design that guards against the excesses of any branch,” the IBP said in a press statement.
“Dissent is not foreign to a democracy; it is essential to its survival. But to incite public repudiation of its authority, or even just to call for its outright defiance, erodes the very foundations of the legal order,” the IBP said.
“Such actions disturb the equilibrium of powers and imperil the integrity of our democratic institutions, especially when appropriate legal remedies remain available within the framework of our constitutional system,” it added.
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Meanwhile, members of the De La Salle University Department of Political Science and Development Studies have asked the SC to live stream the deliberation on the motion for reconsideration being readied by the House.
“A live stream of the deliberation on the motion for reconsideration is the minimum owed to the public. It will not only shed light on where each justice truly stands but also reveal just how aligned – or disconnected – the Court is from the will of the people. Most importantly, it is a chance to begin restoring faith in the judiciary and honor the Constitution you are meant to serve,” a manifesto signed by more than 20 faculty members read. – Neil Jayson Servallos, Bella Cariaso, Elizabeth Marcelo
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