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Impeachment battle will be in Senate

Former Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs Jacinto “Jing” Paras said the House of Representatives may already have the numbers to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte but the real battle would be fought during the Senate impeachment trial. In an interview, he said the camp of Duterte should focus on the Senate impeachment court, where they could challenge the evidence and witnesses presented against the vice president.

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00:00From our friends inside na naka-historya na to, but we just don't want to mention names, may mga amigo
00:10tayong mga kaabing member of Congress,
00:12hanggang pata mga amigo sa sulod, it seems that made up na, made up na ang kwan, kahit daw na
00:22sila'y itawag o kanang pang-handlock na dili-releasean ang mga membro o dili mo firma sa resolution and
00:36vote in the plenary.
00:38But that's expected because the real trial is not in the house.
00:47What we're looking at is an adversarial trial where there is a real due process na matagaan ngayon ang atong
00:55vice president.
00:57Huwag chance nga to confront the witnesses, kaya ako I believe that the witnesses that the prosecution from the house
01:08of representatives will present,
01:11they're mga palsu na mga testigo yan.
01:14At the end of the day, they will tell their fake stories.
01:23Pero dili sa house, dili, kaya di ba pong kapangutana ang atong vice president eh.
01:28Ang iyang mga abogado, dili pong pong kapangutana.
01:31So, it's a one-sided.
01:33Vote ragged sila.
01:34Vote na sila.
01:35Pero dili sa Senado, with Marculeta, with Alan Caitano, and maybe some other senator lawyers,
01:43you will be able to squeeze or to squeeze from that parean ng Buenabintura,
01:51kanyang sa AMLA.
01:54You will be asked questions.
01:55Kung i-presenta nila ito si Madriaga,
02:01you will be asked questions, mga corroborating statements.
02:06So, it's very likely na ang ilang pamakak will be, you know, shown.
02:22Kaling sa issue sa SAL-EN.
02:29That was not in the original.
02:31Did he not even attach the SAL-EN in the complaint?
02:35So, daghang kayong technicality that the lawyers of the vice president will be able to raise.
02:41In fact, if I were one of the lawyers, ako bilang abogado,
02:47eh sa sugod pala, emotion to wash.
02:50Kaya, there is enough technical errors in the House of Representatives Committee on Justice.
03:00So, you believe na ma-impeach din si Sarah sa House of Representatives?
03:06Well, murag-forgone conclusion na na.
03:09But, that does not mean that she's already defeated.
03:15Because the determination of accountability is the conviction.
03:22But, if they fail to, you know, prove, prove her alleged offenses,
03:35I mean, if they fail to prove their allegations against her, wala na.
03:43It's game over.
03:46Quoting from Frank Drelon.
03:49Kung sa isulti ni Frank Drelon, if Sarah will be acquitted, it's game over.
03:56Wala na sila'y ikakontra nga kandidato against the vice president.
04:01Acquitted sa Sene?
04:02Sa Sene.
04:07Well, you know, this is, ang wala kasabtigod,
04:11naingunin mga congressmen na, well, I consider them really dumb.
04:18Itong mga congressmen is, ilang i-handlock ang Senado na duty kuno sa Sene to proceed with the trial.
04:31But they don't realize that we are under a democratic, you know, government.
04:39Well, the Senate will, you know, will decide on the basis of the majority rule.
04:47Pariha roon, tinig-presenta ni nila sa impeachment, articles of impeachment.
04:56Siyempre, na ay maupo sa anak.
05:11Siyempre, na ay maupo sa anak.
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