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Over 32M votes rendered ‘useless’ if VP impeach trial succeeds – lawyer
A lawyer stated that the over 32 million votes for Vice President Sara Duterte would be rendered "useless" if an impeachment trial against her succeeds.
Atty. Martin Delgra, former Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board chairman, made this remark in response to Makabayan block lawmakers' statement that a petition to stop the impeachment trial was a "last ditch effort to escape scrutiny."
Delgra argued that if the lawmakers had followed the impeachment process constitutionally, they would not have filed the petition.
He expressed that the votes of registered voters for the Vice President would become useless if the impeachment were successful.
Duterte secured a landslide victory in the 2022 elections with 32,208,417 votes.
The Vice President's votes were over 22 million more than her closest opponent, former senator Francis Pangilinan.
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