00:00Good evening, Luzon Visayas and Mindanao.
00:05Impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte
00:10was filed in the House of Representatives by various groups.
00:14Aside from his father's drug war victims,
00:17the grandson of former Senator Ninoy Aquino
00:20was one of the 16 who filed a complaint.
00:23The complaint was also mentioned as evidence
00:26of Vice President Bongbong Marcos' business
00:30and his inexplicable spending on OVP Confidential Funds.
00:36Chino Gaston was on the case.
00:41Past 4 o'clock a while ago,
00:43an impeachment complaint was filed against Vice President Sara Duterte
00:46in the office of the House Secretary General.
00:49It included 16 complainants from civil society and religious groups.
00:54It included former Secretary Ging Deles
00:57who served in the office of former President Ninoy Aquino,
01:01his nephew Kiko Aquino D,
01:03running priest Father Robert Reyes,
01:05and the laughing victims of extrajudicial killings by the Duterte administration.
01:10Yakbayad Partylist Congressman Percy Sandana endorsed the impeachment complaint.
01:15This is a very important process
01:19and I'm sure the complaint merits the lower house and the upper house
01:25to make time for this very critical mechanism for accountability.
01:29Because if we don't do this now,
01:31there will be no time for the next year.
01:34Even though Vice President Marcos has already made a statement
01:36regarding the impeachment complaint,
01:38they did not even listen to the grounds of impeachment
01:41which included culpable violations of the Constitution,
01:44betrayal of the public trust, bribery, and other high crimes.
01:47It also included 24 articles of impeachment
01:50including the unaccountable confidential funds
01:53of the office of the Vice President and the Department of Education,
01:56including Vice President Sara.
01:59It also included the statements of the Vice President
02:01during his October 18 press con
02:03and the threat of Vice President Sara
02:06in the life of the President during the November 23 Zoom press con
02:09which included betrayal of the public trust and high crimes.
02:13It also included rigged bidding
02:15for the purchase of a laptop and other electronic devices in DepEd
02:18and the involvement of the Duterte family in various crimes.
02:22Among the articles are the misuse, the failure to account,
02:28the intel and confidential funds of both the office of the Vice President
02:34and also of the Department of Education.
02:40It also included the grounds like her threats, her rants.
02:49There is also an article about her involvement also
02:54in the extrajudicial killings during her term as mayor of Davao City.
03:01According to House Secretary General Reginald Velasco,
03:04they will immediately send a complaint to Speaker Martin Romualdez
03:08to finish the investigation based on the guidelines of the impeachment process.
03:12The complaint must be referred to the plenary
03:15to be endorsed by the Committee on Justice
03:17to decide if it is sufficient in form and substance.
03:21The last day of the session is on December 21 before its adjournment.
03:25I have 10 days in the Speaker.
03:31We have 10 days to accommodate.
03:3410 session days.
03:36So if we file it now, it's not enough.
03:40Because it's only 9 session days.
03:43But Yakbayan Rep. Percy Sandania does not believe
03:47that the limited time of the House of Representatives
03:50to discuss the impeachment complaint is a hindrance to the impeachment.
03:54This impeachment complaint is expensive
03:56to start the real step process towards holding the Vice President accountable.
04:03What we need to remember is simple.
04:06If not now, when else?
04:09We are still trying to get the Vice President's statement
04:13regarding the impeachment complaint filed against him.
04:16For GMA Integrated News, Chino Gaston, Katutok, 24 Hours.
04:33For GMA Integrated News, Chino Gaston, Katutok, 24 Hours.
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