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Sara Duterte: Fight vs impeachment bid is ‘right, true’
The Senate convened as an impeachment court on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, to hear the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte.
Vice President Sara Duterte, currently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, described the impeachment bid against her as "right and true," calling the attacks "cowardly yet openly disingenuous and arrogant."
She stated that the attacks were "absent of basic human decency and respect for the rule of law, typical of people drunk in power."
Duterte is accused of culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and other high crimes, particularly the alleged misuse of P612.5 million in confidential funds.
On Tuesday, the Senate, acting as an impeachment court, returned the articles of impeachment against Duterte to the House of Representatives.
This action was intended to allow the House to certify that the complaint does not violate the once-a-year limit for impeachment proceedings and to confirm the 20th Congress's intent to pursue the case.
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Eighteen senators voted to return articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte to the House of Representatives due to alleged constitutional infirmities.
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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III formally moved for the Senate to convene as an impeachment court to try Vice President Sara Duterte.
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The Senate Sergeant-At-Arms served Vice President Sara Duterte with a writ of summons at her office in Mandaluyong City on Wednesday morning.
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San Juan Rep. Ysabel Maria Zamora questioned the legal basis for Vice President Sara Duterte's response to a Senate summons, particularly concerning the impeachment articles sent back to the House of Representatives.
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Ninety-seven members of the University of the Philippines College of Law Faculty, along with faculty from De La Salle University (DLSU), Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), and other Ateneo schools, urged the Senate to commence the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
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