00:00legal gymnastics now that we interposed by filing this petition. Instead this is a legitimate attempt
00:11on the part of the people in order to stop a constitutionally void as well as defective,
00:19procedurally defective and jurisdictionally deficient impeachment complaint that was
00:27filed against VP Sara Duterte. We would like to emphasize that this is our individual move,
00:36collective efforts on the part of us individual petitioners and VP Sara has nothing to do with
00:43this and this is our move because we feel that the impeachment complaint really is defective
00:50based on three grounds, three principal grounds. Number one, there were three impeachment complaints
00:56that were filed on December 2, December 4 as well as December 19 by different individuals.
01:02Well you can say that they are mostly on the left but the fact remains that there were three
01:09what you call this impeachment complaints on December 2, 4 and 19. December 4 complaint was
01:17the second complaint and the endorsement it was filed by attorney Neri Colmenares et al. and
01:25endorsed by representative Franz Castro and two others. And why do I have to emphasize this?
01:32Because they are the ones now belittling our moves. And why is this important? This is important
01:38because if you base it under article 11 section 3 paragraph 2 okay you will realize that it is
01:46mandatory under the 1987 Constitution for the House of Representatives to act right away on
01:54any impeachment complaints and accordingly subject it to the order of business within ten session
02:02days and refer it to the proper committee within three session days thereafter. Now if you will
02:10likewise read rule 2 of the what you call this House of Representatives on impeachment it is
02:18likewise clearly stated therein that upon receipt of the impeachment complaint it should be referred
02:27to the speaker by the Secretary General and the speaker is mandated by their own rules to have
02:36it set in the order of business within ten session days from receipt and the speaker is
02:44mandated by their own rules to refer it to the Committee on Justice within three days. And what
02:50did they do? They never acted on the three complaints and these were filed on December 2, 4 and 9 never
03:00acted. They waited until February 5 on the last day of the third House session and what did they
03:15do? They fast-tracked. We can even characterize it to borrow the words of Justice Corona blitzkrieg
03:25fashion the filing of the fourth impeachment complaint and in just three hours more or less
03:34215 congressmen allegedly read and verified the thick impeachment complaint that was the fourth
03:45one that was already filed which brings me to another ground therefore no why do we say that
03:53this is constitutionally deficient defective why because article 11 section 3 mandates in relation
04:03with the house rules of procedure on impeachment that the said complaint should have been referred
04:09in the order of business within 10 days and referred to the proper house committee and in
04:21in this case Committee on Justice within three session days they never did that why they did
04:29not do it they did not do it in order that Francisco versus House of Representatives
04:36would not operate and warning the impeachment of then Justice David and in that case the Supreme
04:46Court rule that article 11 section 5 paragraph 4 the one-year bar rule shall operate at the
04:55time when the impeachment complaint shall have been referred to the Committee on Justice so if
05:02they referred the complaint any of the three to the Committee on Justice then the one-year bar
05:12would have operated and therefore the fourth complaint would have no basis at all and that
05:22is very clear and the mandate on the part of the House of Representatives to act on the first three
05:32complaints is not a matter of discretion it should have been done but they never did that they
05:40dilly-dallied and they waited for the fourth complaint at the last hour before they entertained
05:47in a flash in a blitzkrieg fashion this fourth complaint so if you will base it on Francisco
05:53versus House of Representatives Gutierrez versus House of Representatives the fourth complaint
05:58would have no legal basis anymore okay second point the verification requirement if you will
06:09read article 11 of section 3 of the 1987 Constitution if they base it on section 5
06:18that if they have the third one-third vote of the House of Representatives please read it in the
06:251987 Constitution that in case the verified complaint so meaning before you talk about
06:33trial in the Senate fourth wind you must see to it that there was proper verification because
06:40the law Constitution requires in case of verified complaint so we must determine therefore as to
06:50whether or not there was proper verification that was conducted in VOV the impeachment complaint
06:59as submitted and filed in the Senate if you will look this can already been revealed now if you
07:07will look at the impeachment complaint as filed in the Senate there was even no proper verification
07:29you
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