By Junex Doronio
MANILA — Despite the pronouncement of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr that impeaching Vice President Sara Duterte would only be a “waste of time,” some advocacy groups on Monday afternoon (2 December 2024) filed an impeachment complaint against the second highest official of the land.
The impeachment complaint was endorsed by Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña.
To recall, VP Duterte had threatened that the President and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez would be killed if she gets assassinated.
The complaint was filed in the office of Secretary General Reginald “Reggie” S. Velasco at the House of Representatives by civil society organizations, religious leaders, sectoral representatives, and families of victims of extrajudicial killings.
The complainants were Teresita Quintos Deles, Fr. Flaviano Villanueva, Fr. Robert Reyes, Randy Delos Santos (uncle of Tokhang victim Kian Delos Santos), Francis Aquino Dee, Leah Navarro, Sylvia Estrada Claudio, Alicia Murphy, Sr. Mary Grace De Guzman, and former Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano, among others.
They were accompanied by Mamamayang Liberal (ML) partylist first nominee and former senator Leila De Lima, who acted as the complainants’ spokesperson.
Cendaña said the grounds for the impeachment complaint include betrayal of public trust, culpable violations of the Constitution, and other high crimes.
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