VP Sara on another impeachment: People are tired

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December 27, 2025 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — The people are tired of impeachment, Vice President Sara Duterte said on Thursday after civil society groups threatened to file a new complaint against her after the one-year ban expires in February.

“It’s already tiring for the people, that impeachment, because we can see that there’s no evidence of their accusations, totally for threats and harassment,” Duterte said in Davao City.

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan chairman Teddy Casiño has said that the move to file a new impeachment against Duterte will depend on the Supreme Court’s ruling on their appeal after it previously declared the earlier Articles of Impeachment unconstitutional, saying that it violates the one-year rule under the Constitution as well as her right to due process.

Three impeachment complaints were filed by private citizens and groups against Duterte late last year but they were never tackled in the plenary. Instead, the House, with 215 votes, approved a fourth impeachment complaint last Feb. 5, which was immediately followed by the transmittal of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate.

Duterte was impeached by the House under the leadership of President Marcos’ cousin, Martin Romualdez, for alleged betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution, graft and corruption and other high crimes.

In a 13-0-2 decision, the Supreme Court found the Articles of Impeachment filed by the House against Duterte at the Senate last Feb. 5, to be violative of the one-year rule under Article 11, Section 3 of the Constitution as well as of Duterte’s right to due process enshrined under Article 3 or the Bill of Rights also of the Constitution. — Mark Ernest Villeza