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Speaker Martin Romualdez presides over the impeachment proceedings of Vice President Sara Duterte for alleged violations of the constitution and corruption, at the House of Representatives on February 5, 2025.
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Davao del Sur Representative John Tracy Cagas was among the signatories, the only one out of 11 district representatives from Davao region
MANILA, Philippines – Presidential son and namesake Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos was the first among 215 lawmakers who signed the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte.
Dinagat Islands Representative Alan Ecleo completed the one-third vote required by the 1987 Constitution for the “third mode” to impeach the vice president. He was 102nd in the list of signatories.
Presidential cousin and House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez was the last to sign.
Davao del Sur Representative John Tracy Cagas was among the signatories, the only one out of 11 district representatives from Davao region.
Not even PBA Party-list Representative Margarita Nograles Almario, a member of the Duterte family’s rival political clan in Davao City, signed the complaint.
But more than half of Mindanao lawmakers – 41 out of 60 – supported the bid to remove the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, the country’s first president from Mindanao.
In the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), 7 out of 8 lawmakers are among the signatories. The only exception was Basilan Representative Mujiv Hataman.
PCIJ’s map is based on the list of complainants released by ABS-CBN News.
At least 101 lawmakers from Luzon and 40 from the Visayas also signed the complaint.
The party-list lawmakers were divided, however. Thirty-three out of 61 signed.
Cavite Representative Aniela Tolentino, niece of re-electionist Senator Francis Tolentino, signed the complaint. It is the Senate that will try Duterte as an impeachment court.
Senatorial candidates Las Piñas Representative Camille Villar and ACT-CIS Representative Erwin Tulfo are not among the signatories. But Tulfo’s sister-in-law, fellow ACT-CIS Representative Jocelyn Tulfo, and her son, Quezon City Representative Ralph Wendell Tulfo, signed the complaint.
All three Revilla lawmakers in the House did not sign.
Former president and Pampanga Representative Gloria Arroyo did not sign. – Rappler.com
This article was republished from the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
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