{"id":57505,"date":"2026-05-11T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57505"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:51:31","slug":"philippine-vp-sara-duterte-impeached-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57505","title":{"rendered":"Philippine VP Sara Duterte impeached for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippine House of Representatives has voted to impeach Vice-President Sara Duterte for a second time, threatening her plan to run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday&#8217;s vote moves the impeachment process to the Senate for trial, where if convicted, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte will be disqualified from holding public office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 47-year-old is leading early surveys to replace her ally-turned-bitter foe, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case against the vice-president stemmed from her alleged misuse of public funds and public threats against Marcos, his wife and his cousin, the former House speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duterte was impeached on the same grounds in 2025, but the Supreme Court&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgk3k2ln00no\">blocked it on a technicality before the Senate trial could start<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was revived this year. Last week, a House committee that looked into the evidence against the vice-president ruled that there was sufficient grounds to impeach her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duterte described the case as &#8220;nothing more than a scrap of paper&#8221; in a formal written response. She refused to appear in the committee hearings which she said had been politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The Philippine House of Representatives has voted to impeach Vice-President Sara Duterte for a second time, threatening her plan to run for president in 2028. Monday&#8217;s vote moves the impeachment process to the Senate for trial, where if convicted, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte will be disqualified from holding public office. The 47-year-old is leading early surveys to replace her ally-turned-bitter foe, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The case against the vice-president stemmed from her alleged misuse of public funds and public threats against Marcos, his wife and his cousin, the former House speaker. Duterte was impeached on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57507,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505\/revisions\/57507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}