00:00The Supreme Court affirms its ruling that barred the impeachment proceedings against Vice President
00:05Sara Duterte last year by a unanimous vote of all those participating
00:10The Supreme Court en banc denied with finality the motion for reconciling
00:15consideration filed by the House of Representatives which sought to reverse the court's July
00:2025-2025 decision that declared the articles of impeachment against
00:25Vice President Sara Duterte unconstitutional
00:30The complaints against the Vice President were blocked by the one-year bar rule on impeachment
00:34This rule
00:35Found in the 1987 Constitution states that impeachment proceedings cannot be initiated against
00:40the same official more than once within a period of one year
00:43In total, Duterte faced four
00:45impeachment complaints before the House of Representatives
00:48The first three did not materialize
00:50When Duterte was impeached on the 4th, pushed by a resolution signed by more than two-thirds
00:54of all House members
00:55The High Court's decision in 2025 said that the inaction of the first three complaints
01:00has already triggered the one-year bar rule
01:05when the house Townske
01:21Well, but it's probably not yet
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