{"id":232255,"date":"2025-02-05T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/vice-president-sara-duterte-of-the-philippines-is-impeached\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:26:07","slug":"vice-president-sara-duterte-of-the-philippines-is-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/vice-president-sara-duterte-of-the-philippines-is-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines Is Impeached"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/05\/multimedia\/05philippines-impeachment01-photo-lzqf\/05philippines-impeachment01-photo-lzqf-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines Is Impeached\" title=\"Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines Is Impeached\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines was impeached by lawmakers on Wednesday, further escalating political tensions in a strategically important American ally in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Duterte faced four complaints over her alleged misuse of millions in public funds and her pronouncements that she had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/22\/world\/asia\/duterte-marcos-philippines-feud.html\" title=\"\">made plans to assassinate Mr. Marcos<\/a>, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives, who is Mr. Marcos\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A little over three years ago, Ms. Duterte and Mr. Marcos, both scions of notorious political dynasties, joined forces to run together in a national election. They promised national unity and were elected in a landslide victory in 2022. But their partnership was widely seen as a marriage of convenience and ruptured soon after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Duterte has denied the accusations of corruption and cast the impeachment as politically motivated, a view shared by many Filipinos. Mr. Marcos has denied involvement in the impeachment proceedings, which threaten to end her political career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is dragging the whole country to political chaos,\u201d said Aries Arugay, chairman of the political science department at the University of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cUnlike in the U.S., she has no critical function here as vice president,\u201d Mr. Arugay added. \u201cSo, why? The political motivation here is to stop the eventuality of a Sara Duterte presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Duterte has publicly spoken about running for president after Mr. Marcos\u2019s single, six-year term ends in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Dutertes and Marcoses are split over the Philippines\u2019 relationships with the United States and China. Ms. Duterte\u2019s father, the former President Rodrigo Duterte, pivoted toward Beijing when he was in office, while Mr. Marcos favors closer ties with Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The impeachment move now risks escalating the feud between the two clans in the Philippines and their supporters. Paolo Duterte, a congressman and the younger brother of Ms. Duterte, said he was \u201cappalled and enraged by the desperate and politically motivated efforts\u201d to impeach his sister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the Marcos administration thinks it can push this sham impeachment without consequence, they are gravely mistaken,\u201d Mr. Duterte said in a statement. \u201cMark my words: This reckless abuse of power will not end in their favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday afternoon, 215 out of the 306 members of the House voted for the impeachment of Ms. Duterte. Applause broke out in the plenary hall after the official announcement of the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She will face a trial in the Philippine Senate when Congress reconvenes in June. A two-thirds vote is needed for conviction, and analysts say it\u2019s unlikely the Senate, which is made up of pro-Duterte officials, will convict her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, if she is found guilty, Ms. Duterte will be removed from office and disqualified from holding any public post. She can also face criminal and civil charges in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many members of the public are fed up with the Marcoses and the Dutertes, and believe that the political drama is distracting the leaders from the main problems afflicting the country such as poverty and unemployment. Approval ratings for Mr. Marcos and Ms. Duterte have dipped significantly in recent months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/asia\/philippines-vice-president-duterte-impeached.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines was impeached by lawmakers on Wednesday, further escalating political tensions in a strategically important American ally in Asia. Ms. Duterte faced four complaints over her alleged misuse of millions in public funds and her pronouncements that she had made plans to assassinate Mr. Marcos, his wife and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/05\/multimedia\/05philippines-impeachment01-photo-lzqf\/05philippines-impeachment01-photo-lzqf-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164813,2572,181503,161444,2821,141791,412,2627,868,25377],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232257,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255\/revisions\/232257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}