(2 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quezon City, Philippines – 2 December 2024
1. Various of Philippine House Secretary General, Reginald Velasco, receiving impeachment complaint against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte
2. Close of impeachment complaint
3. Wide of officials with impeachment complaint UPSOUND Rep. Percival Cendana, lawmaker (English): "This historic Impeachment complaint against the Vice President"
4. Wide of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English/Tagalog) Leila de Lima, former senator:
“There are five grounds, culpable violations of the constitution, graft and corruption, bribery, betrayal of public truth and other high crimes.”
6. Wide of de Lima speaking to media
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila de Lima, former senator:
“Among the articles for, are the misuse, the failure to account the intel and confidential funds of both the office of the Vice President and also of the Department of Education.”
8. Wide of de Lima speaking to media
9. SOUNDBITE (English/Tagalog) Leila de Lima, former senator:
"There are also the grounds like for her threats, her rants during the press conference in October 18 and the second one in November 2024. Because these are very unbecoming and these are actually a betrayal of public trust because these are also high crimes, her threats in her latest rant or her meltdown.”
10. Various of officials
STORYLINE:
An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.
The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Duterte did not immediately issue any response to the impeachment bid, which accused her of about two dozen alleged crimes.
The vice president’s threats showed the “extent of respondent’s mental incapacity, her depravity and lack of mental fitness to continue holding the high office of vice president of the Philippines,” said a copy of the complaint seen by The Associated Press.
“The same constitute not only betrayal of public trust but also a high crime which would warrant her immediate impeachment from office.”
Duterte, a 46-year-old lawyer, was also accused in the complaint of having unexplained wealth and of allowing a continuation of the extra-judicial killings of drug suspects begun by her father, a former mayor of southern Davao City, when she held that position in the past.
The vice president’s legal troubles have unfolded with the backdrop of her increasingly bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his allies.
She said in online news conference on November 23 that she has contracted an assassin to kill Marcos, his wife and Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were killed, a threat she warned was not a joke.
She later said she was not threatening him but was expressing concern for her own safety.
The impeachment complaint will be scrutinized by the Philippine Congress, which is dominated by allies of Marcos and his cousin and key backer, Romualdez, who also has been politically at odds with the vice president.
Many legislators will then start campaigning for reelection before May 12 midterm elections.
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