NUP: Impeach bid vs Marcos baseless

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January 17, 2026 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — The National Unity Party (NUP) has rejected any move to impeach President Marcos, with party leaders saying they see no constitutional or factual grounds to support such a complaint.

In a press conference yesterday, NUP chairman and House Deputy Speaker and Antipolo Rep. Ronaldo Puno said the issue was raised to him directly and his answer was unequivocal.

Puno said that even at a preliminary level, the party could not find any basis for impeachment under the Constitution. “Actually, I don’t see any grounds for filing an impeachment case against the President,” Puno said.

He said the party had already begun discussing the issue internally, even as critics floated the idea of an impeachment complaint, and the conclusion was clear.

For the NUP, Puno said the absence of credible allegations makes the issue a non-starter. “It looks like there is really nothing,” he said.

For his part, House deputy majority leader and Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong dismissed impeachment talk against the President as “political noise” aimed at slowing efforts to hold officials accountable for the flood control mess.

Puno also stated that Congress will follow the Supreme Court’s updated guidelines in handling impeachment complaints, if a new one is filed against Vice President Sara Duterte.

“So I think what the Supreme Court decision did was it reduced the political character of impeachment and made it more of a judicial process,” he said.

Puno likewise explained that under the previous practice, impeachment cases could move quickly once a complaint secured enough signatures, but the Supreme Court’s ruling has effectively tightened the process, making it harder for impeachment efforts to be treated as a mere numbers game.

Because of these added conditions, Puno said efforts to fast-track an impeachment case to the Senate through a sudden show of signatures would be difficult to pull off under the new framework.