'Marami pwedeng mangyari': Senate on the hot seat in VP Duterte impeach trial

David Dizon

ABS-CBN News

<p>Marathon hearings, witnesses, bank accounts being opened - a lot can happen during an impeachment trial. A former presidential adviser believes the Senate is being placed in the hot seat due to the looming <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/5/house-impeaches-vp-sara-duterte-1551">impeachment trial</a> of Vice-President Sara Duterte.</p><p>Ex-presidential adviser Ronald Lllamas said Senate President Francis Escudero’s insistence that the trial commence after the State of the Nation address could be due to pressure from other senators.</p><p>“Huwag mo na gambalain ang aming mga bakasyon, ang aming mga plane ticket, hotel, restaurant. Gusto naming magpahinga, e late na sinubmit ‘yung impeachment kaya gusto namin ituloy ang bakasyon,” Llamas said in a TeleRadyo Serbisyo interview.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/13/senate-action-sought-on-sara-duterte-impeachment-trial-1936">Senate action sought on Sara Duterte impeachment trial</a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/12/escudero-cautions-senators-from-talking-about-vp-sara-duterte-impeachment-1438">Escudero cautions senators from talking about Sara Duterte&#x27;s impeachment</a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/11/sara-duterte-s-impeachment-trial-will-be-an-election-issue-lawmakers-say-2039">Sara Duterte&#x27;s impeachment trial will be an election issue, lawmakers say</a></div><p>Some senators seeking reelection may want to do the trial after the elections since their vote in the trial may affect their chances in the midterm polls, Llamas said.</p><p>Still others may have calculated that a trial will be bad for them in the 2028 elections, he said, noting that senators could lose votes in Mindanao and among members of the Iglesia ni Cristo depending on the trial’s outcome.</p><p>Llamas noted that during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, only a minority of senators backed the impeachment. In the end, however, 20 senators voted to remove Corona from power.</p><p>“Marami pwedeng mangyari,” he said.</p><p>“If there is popular pressure, their minds can change because it is their survival that is on the line,” he added in Tagalog.  </p>

<p>Marathon hearings, witnesses, bank accounts being opened - a lot can happen during an impeachment trial.</p>

Marathon hearings, witnesses, bank accounts being opened - a lot can happen during an impeachment trial.

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'Marami pwedeng mangyari': Senate on the hot seat in VP Duterte impeach trial

'Marami pwedeng mangyari': Senate on the hot seat in VP Duterte impeach trial

David Dizon,

ABS-CBN News

Published Feb 17, 2025 12:04 PM PHT

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