'You give me too much credit': Marcos denies hand in VP Sara's impeachment

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A day after the lower house of Congress impeached Vice President Sara Duterte via an overwhelming number, President Marcos faced the media to make it clear that he neither had a hand in the impeachment, nor he gave lawmakers the guidance to do so. (Video courtesy of RTVM)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/2/6/marcos-denies-having-a-hand-in-vp-sara-s-impeachment  Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5664f6TkaeHgwBly50DWZQ/join  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00Good afternoon Mr. President, while it is true that it is the Constitutional duty of

00:08the House to act on the impeachment complaint, they have a choice if they will endorse it

00:14or not.

00:15I will directly ask the question, did you have a hand in this impeachment?

00:18No, the Executive cannot have a hand in the impeachment.

00:22There is no role of the Executive in the impeachment.

00:25Of course, did we discuss it with the Speaker?

00:28Did we discuss it with the other Congressmen?

00:30Of course.

00:31And they ask, what is your plan?

00:33What do you really want to do?

00:37Well, this is already here, we cannot avoid it.

00:41But the conventional thinking, Mr. President, is that nothing comes to pass in the House

00:45without the President or without Malacanang's blessing.

00:50You give me too much credit.

00:53But again, what the House has done is clearly the constitutional mandate that they have

01:03to proceed with the impeachment complaints.

01:07So that's why I think they're just following the procedure.

01:27One last point from my end, Mr. President, did he seek your advice on this and what did

01:36you tell him?

01:38Of course, he did.

01:40And I said, it's very simple, what I told him.

01:44And he said, you know, what's your opinion on what I should do?

01:54And I told him, I said, the process has begun.

02:00When you're in the legislature, when you file a bill, okay, House Bill number one, two,

02:06three, et cetera, et cetera, pag file mo nyan, that bill takes a life of its own.

02:12Kahit anong gawin ng congressman na nag-file, o senador na nag-file, kahit ayaw niya yung

02:18mga changes na magagawin dun sa kanyang bill, wala na siyang magagawa.

02:23Because the bill is going through the process as it should.

02:27And part of that process will be amendments, additions, all that.

02:31The impeachment complaint is exactly the same.

02:34Once it has been filed, there is a procedure that needs to be followed already.

02:39So sabi ko, ayan sa nandang tayo, sabi ko kay Kong Sandro, sabi ko sa kanya, the process

02:45has already begun.

02:47So it's your duty now to support that process.

02:51So do your duty.

02:52That's what I told him.

02:53Do your duty.

02:54You have to support the process.

02:56You are constitutionally mandated to carry out that process.

03:01And you are a congressman.

03:02So do your duty.

03:03That's what I told him.

03:04I didn't know you'd be the first to sign though.

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