While specifics of the impeachment were not divulged, the vote follows the filing of a trio of complaints last month accusing Duterte of crimes ranging from the “brazen misuse” of millions of dollars in public funds to plotting President Ferdinand Marcos’s assassination.
Duterte’s fate now lies in the hands of the Philippines’ 24 senators, two-thirds of whom must vote for her impeachment to make it a reality. A trial date has yet to be set.
The relationship between Duterte and President Marcos is at a nadir, their former alliance giving way to a months-long public battle that has seen the trading of wild accusations, including an alleged death threat that remains under investigation.
Marcos’s executive secretary Lucas Bersamin, however, said Monday that the Office of the President would “not interfere” with the impeachment complaints.
House of Representatives member Percival Cendana, who had backed one of the three impeachment complaints, urged his colleagues to take quick action at a rally on Friday that drew thousands calling for Duterte’s impeachment.
But that rally was dwarfed by one a conservative sect organised that drew hundreds of thousands to the street on January 13 opposing the vice president’s impeachment.
But the alliance has since imploded. In November, she delivered an expletive-laden speech saying she had ordered someone to kill Marcos if she herself was assassinated.
The alleged assassination threat was among the allegations included in the last of the three complaints filed against Duterte, lodged December 19 by seven Manila-based Catholic priests.
“Impeachment is the necessary, ultimate line of defence against corruption at the highest rungs of officialdom,“ it said. “She cannot be vice president a minute longer.”
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