The prosecution panel in the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte says on Wednesday, June 11, it would raise a motion seeking clarity on the impeachment court's directive to remand the impeachment articles from the Senate to the House of Representatives.
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00:00The prosecution panel in the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte says on Wednesday, June 11,
00:07it would raise a motion seeking clarity on the impeachment court's directive
00:10to remand the impeachment articles from the Senate to the House of Representatives.
00:14Ang prosecution panel po ay nalalabuan. So we resolve to seek the clarification of the impeachment court.
00:28The impeachment court wants two things. First, for the House to certify it did not violate a constitutional rule
00:34when it proceeded with the impeachment of the Vice President. Second, for the House of the 20th Congress
00:40to express willingness that it is still willing to push through with the trial.
00:44Batanga 2nd District Representative Jinky Luistro insists that the House did not circumvent the one-year bar rule.
00:50We maintain our position. Sumunod po kami fully and strictly.
00:58to the requirements of the Constitution.
01:02We did not violate the one-year prohibition rule.
01:07Duterte and her Senate allies had claimed that the House deliberately froze the initiation of the impeachment process
01:13when it sat on the original but supposedly weak impeachment complaints.
01:17If those complaints were junk, Duterte would get a constitutional one-year immunity from impeachment.
01:22Regarding the second condition, Luistro has this to say.
01:25With respect to the second order, it is impossible to be complied with
01:33because first of all, 20th Congress doesn't exist yet.