00:00It is possible that the impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte was based on an improper explanation of how her office used her confidential funds.
00:11According to a committee in the Chamber, and Tina Pangiliban Perez was involved.
00:20If Vice President Sara Duterte's improper explanation of how she used her confidential funds,
00:27it can be used as a basis for her impeachment.
00:31According to the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability.
00:35Unless of course, they can prove that their use is justified.
00:40But as we see it, they really have a liability.
00:45Now, those two instances, we can say that they are grounds for impeachment
00:53because obviously, there was a betrayal of public trust and the anti-graft.
00:58Representative Joel Chua is talking about the payment of the Office of the Vice President of Php16 million for the 11-day rent of safe houses in 2022.
01:10The Department of Education is also paying Php15 million under the Visa in 2023 for the Umanoy Youth Leadership Summit,
01:20which was held by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, but the AFP refused to give them the money.
01:26I think our former president has accountability for the fact that he even signed, she even signed personally all the vouchers.
01:36This needs to be investigated because we do not want to just hastily do that.
01:45In the last hearing of the committee, did Duterte or anyone else go to her office?
01:51The impeachment complaint is not based on her going or not going.
01:56It is based on the evidence that they will present on how they used the funds.
02:04If the vice president did not go, will she be contempted?
02:09No, we will not cite her.
02:12Maybe her staff, at the end of the day, we still respect her as the second highest ranking official of our country as vice president.
02:25So we will give all the respect to her office.
02:33But that's not extended.
02:36Yesterday, House Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzalez Jr. said that the possible plunder case against Visa is also being investigated
02:45because of the inexplicable expenses of Php112.5 million of confidential funds when she was still the secretary of the Department of Education.
02:55But Chua said that Duterte could not be charged because she has immunity as an incumbent VP.
03:03We are waiting for the reaction of Vice President Duterte, but she was the first to announce that she has a plan to impeach her and she called it politics.
03:13For GMA Integrated News, Tina Panganiban Perez, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
03:25For GMA Integrated News, I'm Tina Panganiban Perez.
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