00:00Before the two impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte,
00:04the other official of the government was also facing the same complaint.
00:10GMA Integrated News Research investigated this in the direction of Mackie Pulido.
00:18In the fight between the two separate complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte,
00:23the word impeachment came up again.
00:26This is the process of removing from office of presidents, vice presidents,
00:31members of the Supreme Court, and heads of constitutional commissions,
00:35as well as the ombudsman in charge of the legal system.
00:38The word was not changed in the vocabulary of the Filipinos.
00:42In the investigation of GMA Integrated News Research,
00:45it was only in 1949 that this process of filing an impeachment complaint
00:50against President Elpidio Quirino was tested.
00:52In 1964, President Diosdado Macapagal was also faced with this.
00:56And in 1985, President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
00:59All of those complaints were trashed.
01:05After the EDSA revolution, this process was also used against President Cory Aquino,
01:09but it also did not succeed.
01:13But in 2000,
01:16For the impeachment of the President Joseph Ejercito Estrada
01:20Joseph Ejercito Estrada became the first president in the history of the Philippines
01:25who was impeached.
01:27His impeachment trial in the Senate even went haywire.
01:30The no-vote habit.
01:33I represent!
01:35I represent!
01:36But the process of removing from office of President Elpidio Quirino
01:40was not finished yet.
01:44After Estrada, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,
01:49Noynoy Aquino, and Rodrigo Duterte were also faced with impeachment complaints.
01:51But all of them were trashed as well.
01:54For the vice presidents,
01:55VP Sara was not the first to be faced with impeachment complaints.
01:59Estrada was also faced with it in 1994.
02:02Arroyo was also faced with it in 2000.
02:04But none of them succeeded.
02:07There was also an impeachment complaint
02:09filed by Vice President Noli de Castro in 2005
02:12and Lenny Rubredo in 2017.
02:14But none of them endorsed the law.
02:17If Estrada was the first president to be impeached,
02:20Chief Justice Renato Corona was the first magistrate to be impeached
02:24and finally convicted in the impeachment trial in the Senate in 2012.
02:28Twenty senators find the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
02:34Renato C. Corona,
02:37guilty as charged.
02:39Aside from Estrada and Corona,
02:41among the impeached officials in the country,
02:43were Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez in 2011
02:46and Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista in 2017.
02:50For GMA Integrated News,
02:52Macky Pulido reporting for 24 Hours.
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