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Jose Rodel Clapano - The Philippine Star
February 12, 2026 | 12:00am
Vice President Sara Duterte
Miguel De Guzman
MANILA, Philippines — The same constitutional standards applied in the impeachment cases against President Marcos would be used by the House of Representatives in dealing with the cases against Vice President Sara Duterte, committee on justice chairperson Rep. Gerville Luistro said yesterday.
Luistro made the pronouncement after the plenary adopted her committee’s findings and recommendations contained in its report dismissing two impeachment complaints against the President for insufficiency in substance. The committee earlier ruled the complaints were sufficient in form.
“The people of the Philippines are assured that whatever is the parameter, the deliberation, the approach of the justice committee in handling the impeachment complaints against the President will be adopted for the purpose of evaluating and determining as well the sufficiency in form and substance with respect to the impeachment complaints against the Vice President,” Luistro told reporters following the plenary’s approval of her committee’s report on Tuesday.
But she stressed the impeachment complaints against Duterte have not yet been referred to her committee.
“It is not yet in the justice committee. That’s why we haven’t seen yet these impeachment complaints. I heard there are three, but we haven’t seen any of those,” Luistro said.
She said impeachment complaints must first be referred by the plenary to the justice committee before the latter can make its move.
She also explained that the impeachment complaints against the Vice President were not taken up last Monday because they were still with the Office of the Speaker.
The Office of the Speaker, according to Luistro, has 10 session days to include the impeachment complaints in the Order of Business, after which they can be referred to the plenary within three session days.
The first two complaints, filed separately by members of the Makabayan bloc and by a coalition of civil society groups and lawyers, accuse the Vice President of betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution in connection with the alleged misuse and mishandling of confidential funds when she was concurrently education chief.
A third complaint, filed by another group of lawyers and religious leaders, raises similar accusations, centering on her alleged misuse of confidential funds.
