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00:00In other news, the Senate looked into their preparations for the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:06In the middle of that, the VP filed a petition to the Supreme Court to question the legality of the impeachment against her.
00:14Let's now look at the 5 references.
00:19Two weeks after the impeachment of the camera, Vice President Sara Duterte went to sleep in the Supreme Court.
00:26She demanded that the impeachment trial against her be stopped through a temporary restraining order or writ of preliminary injunction.
00:34As soon as Vice President Duterte went to sleep, the camera underwent grave abuse of discretion.
00:38In the petition filed, it was stated that there cannot be more than one impeachment proceeding against an official within a year.
00:47The camera intended to go around the one-year ban on the four impeachment complaints filed in February,
00:54despite the three more impeachment complaints filed in December.
00:58This is so that the camera can spread a sufficient number of signatures before the election of 2025 because the composition of the camera will be changed.
01:07Respondent to the camera's petition was Speaker Martin Numualdez.
01:12His Secretary General, and the Senate under the leadership of Senate President Francis Escudero.
01:18His father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, was one of the lawyers of Vice President Duterte who signed the petition.
01:25The former president will only receive his mandatory continuing legal education exemption, which is a requirement for the continued practice as a lawyer.
01:34Although the petition was filed before the on-bank session, according to the Supreme Court, the petition of Vice President Duterte was no longer included in the agenda of the magistrates,
01:42as well as another petition asking for an end to the impeachment trial.
01:47The petition is expected to be raffled first before it can be included in the agenda of the next on-bank session.
01:54According to the leaders of the Senate, they referred this matter to the Solicitor General for them to answer.
02:01Speaker Numualdez has yet to respond.
02:03One of the impeachment prosecutors, who has no basis for the Supreme Court to issue a TRO, was indignant.
02:10He also denied the allegation of not having studied and delayed the fourth impeachment complaint.
02:16It's not railroaded because since the three impeachment complaints were filed back in 2024, last year,
02:24we already had an individual evaluation of these impeachment complaints.
02:31Impeachment prosecutor Lawrence Defensor believes that the impeachment is a political question and the Supreme Court has no knowledge of it.
02:40In the midst of different petitions in the Supreme Court, Senate President Chief Escudero said,
02:45It's providential that we were not able to proceed with the trial because we recessed so that all of these things can be submitted to the Supreme Court.
02:54The Supreme Court can pass it so that there will be no delay or delay in the trial of the Senate on these kinds of technicalities or issues.
03:04Escudero is referring to the Senate Committee on Rules and Legal Team the letters to him for him to study.
03:11Escudero said that it will take 40 days to submit the pleadings to each camp before the pre-trial starts.
03:19That's why it won't be until June 30 when the 19th Congress will end.
03:24How can we have a trial of 12? Then surely the winner will be decided because there is no two-thirds.
03:33So the soonest time you can convene the impeachment court for trial purposes would be once the Senate is complete with 24 members.
03:42That will happen after June 30 and once the new Senate has entered into its function.
03:49Even in July, the impeachment trial in Bicy was planned to start.
03:53The legal team is already forming and making a robe for the Senator Judges.
03:59A setup has also been laid for the impeachment.
04:01The Senate estimates that it will spend less than a million pesos on the impeachment trial.
04:06But the lawyer's fees are different, they are not yet included in the final.
04:10The Senate will get private lawyers to help in the process.
04:15Sarima Nefra reporting for GMA Integrated News.
04:21House Secretary Reginald Velasco said that he does not have copies of the two petitions in the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
04:30They will wait for the copies of the petitions before commenting.
04:34But Velasco assured that the camera followed all the constitutional requirements in sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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