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The House prosecution team on Wednesday, September 23, said the Senate impeachment court’s decision to lower the conviction threshold should not be treated as a preview of how senator-judges will ultimately vote on Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial.

House impeachment team adviser Robert Ace Barbers said the prosecution respects the court’s ruling but cautioned against drawing conclusions about the final vote on the four articles of impeachment. (Video courtesy of RTVM)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/09/24/kulang-ang-13-conviction-threshold-vote-not-a-preview-of-vp-duterte-trial-verdict-says-prosecution

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00:00The prosecution panel respects the decision of the court in this issue of lowering down the threshold.
00:09But we believe that it is not an indication of the possible results of the vote that they will make
00:19when the four articles have already been presented by the prosecution.
00:24So, we do not want to preempt what their decision will be, but one important point in the context of
00:37our legalities
00:38is finally a decision to talk about who is qualified to vote.
00:46And this is the result of the vote that happened earlier.
00:52I think it will be premature to predict what will happen once the impeachment trial reaches its final conclusion
01:03by simply judging the way today's decision of the court prompted some of the members to not participate
01:12in the voting on the application of the two-thirds threshold.
01:17It will also be unfair on the part of the court to assign numbers na at this early, at this
01:23point in time.
01:24So, what is important is, una, yung mga hindi po nag-agree doon sa motion ni appeal,
01:32ano motion po ni Senator Erwin Tulfo, nakapaglatag po sila ng kanilang explanation sa kanilang boto.
01:39At bumoto naman po sila base po sa kanilang opinion at kung ano po yung nalalaman nila sa ating constitution.
01:46So, this is just a plain workings of a healthy and working democracy.
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