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As of early afternoon on Wednesday, the effort to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte in the House has secured the backing of nearly double the required number of lawmakers. The first source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Rappler that “around 200 lawmakers” as of 1 pm have supported...

Commissioned and released by Stratbase Group on Monday, the SWS survey showed that the country’s two highest government officials started the year on “equal footing” with Marcos scoring a 50 percent “much trust” rating while Duterte scored a 49 percent “much trust” rating. Source: SWS trust...

4th Quarter of 2024: Bangag Jr. (65% trust) (64% performance) VP Sara (49% trust) (48% performance) Senate President (63% trust) (65% performance) Tambaloslos (58% trust) (59% performance) Source: PBBM retains majority support; VP ratings fall in Q4: OCTA | Philippine News Agency

Four in 10 Filipinos or 41% are supportive of the impeachment or removal from office of Vice President Sara Duterte, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. The SWS survey, conducted between December 12 and December 18, 2024 and commissioned by advisory and consultancy group Stratbase...

"She was in fact invited and attended the National Security Council meeting in July, 2016 together with four living Presidents ( FVR, ERAP , PGMA, PBCA ) at that time during the Duterte presidency," Panelo said. On July 27, 2016, then president Rodrigo Duterte presided over the NSC meeting in...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has removed Vice President Sara Duterte from the National Security Council (NSC), further diminishing, if not totally eclipsing, her role in his administration following a bitter rift between the two former allies. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin explained the...

House Secretary-General Reginald S. Velasco did not identify who will file the complaint nor the congressman who will endorse the complaint, but said a lawmaker from the House majority caucus floated the possibility of filing ouster charges against the embattled vice-president. “They haven’t...

A coalition of Catholic priests, civil society leaders, and lawyers filed a third impeachment complaint on Thursday against Vice President Sara Duterte concerning the alleged anomalous disbursements of confidential funds to her office and the Department of Education (DepEd) during her tenure as...

“I will not give an explanation because it will entail that I explain intelligence operations which will compromise offices who do intelligence operations. It will really compromise how they work. So, no explanation will be given to the members of the House of Representatives,” Duterte said when...

“First of all, I told [Brawner] that I will not accept replacements to my old security personnel and just leave whoever will be left with me,” she told reporters in a briefing at her Mandaluyong City office. “That is one option that we are preparing in case there is a pullout of the entire...

During a phone interview with reporters, Velasco was asked why the two impeachment complaints have not yet reached Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez’s desk. “Not yet, but we have heard that others would also file impeachment complaints. So we will just do one transmittal to the Speaker,” he...

“Vice President Duterte deserves to be impeached for her abuse of power and plunder of the nation’s coffers. The Filipino people deserve a vice president who is ethical, accountable, and committed to public service — not one who weaponises authority for personal gain,” Akbayan Representative...

The Office of the Ombudsman has asserted that it cannot suspend nor investigate Vice President Sara Duterte over her kill threat to President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. because it was "personal in nature" and had nothing to do with her office. "We have the authority to suspend, to...

A disbarment complaint has been filed before the Supreme Court (SC) Wednesday against Vice President Sara Duterte following her statement that she has contracted an assassin to target President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and House of Representatives Speaker Martin...

Marcos made the pronouncement after being asked to confirm a text message he supposedly sent to House leaders, which surfaced on Thursday. “Well, it was actually a private communication, but it got leaked. Yes. Because that’s really my opinion,” Marcos said in a mix of English and Filipino...

Section 9 Article VII of the Philippine Constitution says that the President has the power to nominate a legislator from the Senate or the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy left in the Office of the Vice President. Whoever is nominated by the President, however, would be subject to...

Asked about AFP's reason for the request, Fajardo said, "That was, I think, triggered by the possible recall of some of the AFP personnel under detail po sa VPSPG as a result of what happened po last Saturday." According to Fajardo, the 25 cops were sent to the VPSPG on Tuesday. Source: 25 cops...

The NBI team arrived at the Office of the Vice President in Mandaluyong headquarters past noon. The subpoena was later received by OVP staff. Source: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/sara-duterte-served-subpoena-nbi-threats-marcos/

Sara Duterte's actions trigger 'a chain of events with irreversible consequences not only for the Vice President and for her political future, but the nation as well' Vice President Sara Duterte has just taken the familial precept of extending preemptive absolution to favored aides, advisers...

House committee on good government chair Joel Chua said Duterte initially requested that she be allowed to accompany Lopez in detention, citing “humanitarian” reasons including Lopez’s chronic back problem and lack of sleep due to safety concerns. According to Duterte, Lopez was “not used to...