87% of lawmakers who backed Sara Duterte impeachment reelected

One hundred out of 115 House representatives who supported the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte were reelected in the 2025 midterm polls, indicating the impeachment was not a political liability.

House of Representatives Assistant Majority Leader and Tingog party-list Rep. Jude Acidre stated that the 86.9 percent reelection rate of the impeachment signatories who ran for reelection refutes claims that the impeachment proceedings negatively impacted their electoral performance.

Acidre asserted that the public values courage and has shown support for the representatives who backed the impeachment, dismissing the narrative of it being a political disadvantage.

He further argued that the defeat of a few candidates should not be attributed to the constitutional impeachment process, which he believes the public understood and endorsed.

In Mindanao, considered the bailiwick of the Dutertes, 36 of the 44 pro-impeachment lawmakers are set to return to Congress, representing an 81.81 percent win rate.

Acidre stressed that the House acted as an independent, co-equal branch committed to the rule of law, and that Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez's principled politics resonates across the nation.