00:00President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has denied that the Executive has a role in the impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:09The President insisted that the government should separate the Congress.
00:13For Balitang Pambansa, here is the report.
00:19Did President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. have nothing to do with the impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte?
00:25No, the Executive cannot have a hand in the impeachment.
00:29The Executive has no role in the impeachment.
00:31I do not give guidance to Congress.
00:33We are independent of each other.
00:35The Vice President was impeached after the 215 lawmakers signed the 4th impeachment complaint.
00:43The President was the first to talk to the Congress to avoid filing a complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:49However, the Presidential Senate was the first to sign on the list, led by Ilocos Norte 1st District Representative Sandro Marcos.
00:57While the President's cousin, House Speaker Marty Drumwaldes, was the last to sign.
01:03Once it has been filed, there is a procedure that needs to be followed already.
01:08So I told him that the process has already begun.
01:16So it's your duty now to support that process.
01:20So do your duty, that's what I told him.
01:23Do your duty.
01:24You have to support the process.
01:26You are constitutionally mandated to carry out that process.
01:30I didn't know you'd be the first to sign.
01:32The ball is now in their court.
01:34They will call it an impeachment court.
01:36But the session has been adjourned and will resume on June 2 after the election.
01:41Only the President of the Republic of the Philippines has the power to hold a special session.
01:48If the Senators ask for it, yes.
01:51Again, they will decide.
01:53We are not the ones deciding this.
01:56If the Senate President calls me up on the telephone,
02:01the Senators, I talk to the Senators if they can hold a special session.
02:04Sure, I'll do it.
02:06But if they don't request it, that means they're doing something else.
02:10They're not yet ready.
02:12It is up to them how they decide to have the trial.
02:18When they have the trial, what are the rules for the trial,
02:21how they will conduct it.
02:23The President believes that impeachment has no effect on the economy or the service of the government.
02:29Seven articles of impeachment were the basis of the Congress' complaint,
02:33including the betrayal of public trust,
02:35culpable violation of the Constitution,
02:37graft and corruption,
02:39malversation of public funds,
02:41and committed high crimes.
02:43Like the Kill Plot,
02:45where Duterte was accused of fighting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,
02:48Speaker Martin Dumaldes,
02:50and First Lady Liza Marcos.
02:52Including the misuse of confidential funds
02:55by the Office of the Vice President
02:57and the Department of Education
02:59that amounted to more than Php 600 million.
03:02Impeachment is also the basis of the accusation
03:05because it is a part of the excess money in the DepEd.
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