FACT CHECK: No new impeachment complaint vs Marcos sent to Senate

The most recent impeachment complaints against Marcos were dismissed in February 2026. This triggered the one-year bar rule, and no new complaint has been filed since.

Claim: A new impeachment complaint against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been transmitted to the Senate.

Rating: FALSE

Why we fact-checked this: Several posts containing the claim have been circulating on Facebook since July 15, with the most popular one being a video with 300,000 views, 7,300 reactions, and 3,200 shares.

All the posts either contain narration or a caption that claims to be “breaking news” about a recent development at the Senate. The posts claim that an impeachment complaint was supposedly filed against Marcos and taken up during the so-called meeting.

“Ang kontrobersya ay nagsimula nang lumabas ang pangalan ng mga pangunahing sangkot at mga dokumento na naglalaman ng mga hindi kapani-paniwalang pondo, mga ghost projects, at mga eskwelahan na hindi akreditado,” the video says.

(The controversy began when the names of the main parties involved and documents regarding undeclared funds, ghost projects, and unaccredited schools emerged.)

The posts contain a photo that supposedly shows the senators in the middle of the plenary hall, passing around a folder of the impeachment complaint. The posts also link the news to First Lady Liza Marcos, saying this complaint against her husband exposed her own plot to fabricate an impeachment complaint.

The comments on the posts show that users believed the claim to be true and criticized the First Lady.

The facts: The most recent impeachment complaints against Marcos were dismissed by the House of Representatives earlier in February this year. This means these complaints were never transmitted or discussed by the Senate, contrary to the posts’ claim.

The junking of those impeachment complaints also triggered the rule granting the President one year of immunity from impeachment proceedings. (READ MORE: Marcos officially secures 1-year protection from impeachment)

Since the rule took effect, no credible media reports or government sources have mentioned any new impeachment complaint being filed against Marcos.

AI detection tool Sight Engine also found that the photo of the Senate included in the false posts is 99% likely to be AI-generated. The faces of the supposed senators in the photo do not match those on the roll of current senators.

Marcos’ 2026 impeachment complaint: The two impeachment complaints filed against Marcos this year were endorsed separately by Pusong Pinoy Representative Jett Nisay and the three-member Makabayan bloc. These complaints were filed within days of each other in January 2026.

Both cited the President’s alleged roles in flood control corruption and the overall budget mess, but the Nisay-endorsed complaint also accused Marcos of drug use and faulted him for the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte on an International Criminal Court warrant.

In February 2026, the House justice committee declared both complaints insufficient in substance, resulting in their dismissal. In the plenary, a majority of 284 lawmakers voted in favor of these findings, triggering the one-year bar rule and preventing any critic of the President from filing another impeachment complaint against him until January 2027.

Sara Duterte impeachment: False claims about Marcos have been circulating amid Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. The two camps have been locked in a fierce political feud since their alliance broke down in 2024, and since then, Duterte’s supporters have continued to pin the Vice President’s political woes on Marcos.

Rappler has debunked several false claims related to the impeachment proceedings and its key actors:

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• FACT CHECK: Marcos not arrested, photo is AI-generated
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• FACT CHECK: Photocopied peso bills not legal tender, can’t be used for transactions 

 – Shay Du/Rappler.com

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