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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte filed a petition to the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment trial against her.
00:08The Vice President hurried the impeachment process to reach the Supreme Court before the election.
00:15Witness, Salima Refra.
00:21Two weeks after the impeachment of the camera, Vice President Sara Duterte went to the Supreme Court.
00:27She asked to stop the impeachment trial against her by temporary restraining order or writ of preliminary injunction.
00:35Despite the visit, there was grave abuse of discretion of the camera.
00:40In the petition filed, it was stated that there cannot be more than one impeachment proceeding against an official within a year.
00:49The camera was intended to circulate the one-year ban on the four impeachment complaints filed in February
00:55despite the three more impeachment complaints filed in December.
01:00This is so that the camera can spread a sufficient number of signatures before the election of 2025
01:06because the composition of the camera will change.
01:09Respondents to the camera's petition led by Speaker Martin Numualdez,
01:13his Secretary General, and the Senate under the leadership of Senate President Francis Escudero,
01:19as well as the lawyers of the Vice President who signed the petition,
01:23his father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
01:26The former President will just get his mandatory continuing legal education exemption
01:32which is a requirement for the continued practice as a lawyer.
01:36Although a new on-bank session was held,
01:38according to the Supreme Court, the petition of the Vice President was not included in the agenda of the magistrates
01:44as well as another petition asking for a halt to the impeachment trial.
01:49The petition is expected to be raffled first before it can be included in the agenda of the next on-bank session.
01:56According to the leaders of the Senate, they referred this matter to the Solicitor General for them to answer.
02:02Speaker Numualdez and House Secretary General Reginald Velasco did not respond.
02:07One of the impeachment prosecutors who said that the TRO has no basis in the Supreme Court,
02:14also denied the allegation of not having studied and hastened the fourth impeachment complaint.
02:20It was not railroaded because since the three impeachment complaints were filed back in 2024, last year,
02:28we already had an individual evaluation of these impeachment complaints.
02:36Impeachment prosecutor Lawrence Defensor did not believe that the impeachment was a political question
02:41and that the Supreme Court did not know about it.
02:44In the middle of a different petition in the Supreme Court,
02:47said Senate President Chase Escudero,
02:50It is providential that we were not included in the trial because we recessed
02:54so that all of these things can be brought to the Supreme Court,
02:58so that the Supreme Court can pass so that there will be no suspension or suspension in the trial of the Senate
03:05of these kinds of technicalities or issues.
03:09Escudero said that the Senate Committee on Rules and Legal Team will refer the letters to him for him to study.
03:15Escudero said that it will take 40 days for the pleadings to be submitted in the other camp before the pre-trial starts.
03:24That's why it will not be until June 30 when the 19th Congress will be over.
03:29How can we have a trial of 12?
03:32And then surely the winner will be decided because there is no two-thirds.
03:37Right?
03:38So the soonest time you can convene the impeachment court for trial purposes would be
03:43once the Senate is complete with 24 members.
03:47That will happen after June 30 and once the new Senate has entered into its function.
03:54Even on July, the impeachment trial in Bisay is planned to start.
03:58The legal team is already forming and preparing a robe for the Senator Judges.
04:03There is also a set-up laid out for impeachment.
04:06The Senate estimates that it will spend less than a million pesos on the impeachment trial.
04:11But the lawyer's fees are different, they will not be deducted yet.
04:15The Senate will get private lawyers to help with the process.
04:20For GMA Integrated News, I am Salima Refra, your sexy.
04:27The Secretary-General of the House of Representatives, Reginald Velasco, issued a statement.
04:32They admitted that there are two petitions in the Supreme Court that question the validity of the impeachment complaint
04:38against Vice President Sara Duterte.
04:40They will wait for a copy of the petitions before giving a comment.
04:44But he assured that the constitutional requirements were followed
04:48when they transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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