00:00A small group of people formed the House Prosecution Panel
00:03which is focused on each side of the Articles of Impeachment
00:07that they filed against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:10According to Batangas 2nd District Representative,
00:13Gervil Luistro, one of the prosecutors of the Camera,
00:17they have a lot today, but it's not all of it,
00:21but the members of each article are already together.
00:26For example, the members of Article 1
00:29are separated from the members of Article 2
00:32and the members of the other articles are also separated.
00:34Yesterday, the prosecution team in the Senate
00:39asked Senate President Francis Escudero
00:42to issue a writ of summons for VP Sara.
00:46Even though the Senate leader is not in favor of this,
00:50congressmen are still hoping that the Senate will study this well.
00:55I wish to express that the opinion of the House
01:02is entirely different from the opinion of the Senate President.
01:07While we maintain that session is not needed
01:12for them to be able to convene as an impeachment court,
01:16the Senate President is saying otherwise.
01:19When it comes to our last motion yesterday,
01:24motion for issuance of writ of summons,
01:26I think we boiled down to the same argument
01:31that session is not needed
01:34while the Senate is claiming that session is needed for them to convene.
01:39Again, our legal standing is rooted on the fact that
01:44impeachment process is different from legislative process.
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