(4 Dec 2024)
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Manila – 4 December 2024
1. More than a 100 left-wing activists taking oath before filing the second impeachment complaint against Philippine Vice President
2. Various of group taking oath
3. Camera operators filming
4. House of representatives members handing over impeachment complaint to Congress Sargent at Arms (left) Reginald S. Velasco
5. Tight of impeachment complaint documents
6. Complainants watching
7. SOUNDBIT: (English) Teddy Casiño, complainant:
“We have just filed the second impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, and what makes this complaint different from the first complaint is that this is really focused on just one ground which is the betrayal of public trust, and we are saying that the Vice President betrayed public trust by committing three acts. One, is that she used her confidential and intelligence funds to the amount 612.5 million pesos ($10.3 million) illegally, irregularly.”
8. Wide of Casiño
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Teddy Casiño, complainant:
“When Congress discovered this anomaly that she tried to stop Congress from investigating the matter by refusing to answer legitimate questions during the budget deliberations by refusing to attend hearings and by telling her staff also not to attend hearings and by telling or ordering or asking the commission on audit itself not to submit its finding to Congress. So on this basis we say that she betrayed public trust which is an impeachable offense under the constitution.”
10. Wide of filing
STORYLINE:
A group led by left-wing activists filed a second impeachment complaint against the Philippine vice president Sara Duterte on Wednesday over her alleged misuse of government funds and demanded that she be permanently barred from holding public office.
The impeachment complaint filed by at least 74 activists, including human rights, labor and student leaders, before the House of Representatives reflects the extent of the political hostilities faced by Duterte.
She did not immediately comment on the new impeachment complaint or an earlier one filed Monday.
Duterte, a 46-year-old lawyer, is the daughter of also-controversial former President Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw a bloody anti-drug crackdown while in office.
The killing of thousands of suspects during the crackdown is being investigated by the International Criminal Court as a possible crime against humanity.
Her No. 1 political adversary has been President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whom she publicly threatened with death in a Nov. 23 online news conference.
Government investigators have launched a criminal investigation into her threat against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives, a cousin and ally of Marcos.
Duterte has tried to walk back her comments by saying they were not a direct death threat but rather an expression of concern for her own safety.
The complaint filed Wednesday accused the vice president of “betrayal of public trust over the illegal use and mishandling of 612.5 million pesos ($10.3 million) in confidential funds,” according to a statement by the complainants.
The impeachment complaint said that in addition to the alleged misuse of the confidential and intelligence funds, the vice president and her staff allegedly tried to cover up the irregularities by submitting fabricated reports, receipts and documents to the Commission on Audit and deliberately obstructing a congressional investigation.
She was also accused of failing to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.
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