By Clarist Mae Zablan
(June 11, 2025) – The Senate’s decision to return to the House of Representatives the impeachment complaint against Vice Pres. Sara Duterte shows a seeming lack of interest among senators to proceed with the trial, a political science professor said on Wednesday.
Prof. Aries Arugay, the chairperson of the University of the Philippines’ Department of Political Sciences, said the lower house lawmakers of the 19th Congress may not be able to directly respond to the Senate’s decision to remand the articles of impeachment back to Batasan. He noted that the question of the impeachment court is towards the upcoming 20th Congress.
“I think there’s really this aim to further delay and therefore, really, call into question the quote-unquote crossing over to the 20th Congress,” Arugay said on One News’ Money Talks.
“It seems like the Senate of the 19th Congress has no interest in processing this impeachment trial of the Vice President.”
On the first day the Senate convened as an impeachment court on Tuesday, the senator-judges voted to remand the impeachment complaint to the House of Representatives, citing a need for the lower house lawmakers to certify the constitutionality of its act.
Senators also wanted the House in the 20th Congress to confirm if it is still willing to pursue the impeachment case.
Arugay said that further delaying the impeachment process will cause more uncertainty in the country and dampen market confidence.
“I think it is incumbent of our elected officials not to really further delay the process… and really to think that the only way the nation could move forward, our democracy, is to put closure on this process and not to further delay it,” he said.
(AGD)
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