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Vice President Sara Duterte, June 25, 2025. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File

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Victoria Tulad

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/175100478246220250625-kasarilayaan-duterte-MT34.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Vice President Sara Duterte, June 25, 2025. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File </span></span></span></div><div><br id="isPasted"/></div><p>MANILA — House prosecutors on Friday responded to Vice President Sara Duterte’s answer to the articles of impeachment against her.</p><p>In her answer ad cautelam, Duterte’s camp asserted that the impeachment <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/23/sara-duterte-pleads-impeachment-case-unconstitutional-1725">complaint elevated to the Senate “must be dismissed”</a> as it was “void from the beginning” for violating the Constitutional provision that prohibits more than one impeachment complaint to be initiated against an impeachable official within one year. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/26/-impeachment-court-cannot-dismiss-articles-of-impeachment-against-sara-duterte-2253">&#x27;Impeachment court cannot dismiss articles of impeachment against Sara Duterte&#x27;</a></div><p>The House prosecution panel submitted its 37-page reply to the Senate impeachment court past 1:30 p.m., its spokesperson Regie Tongol confirmed.</p><p>A copy of the reply will be sent to the outgoing and incoming senator-judges on Monday, said impeachment clerk of court Renato Bantug, Jr.  </p><p>“In between now and the next step, it’s up to the parties, it’s up to the court,” he said.</p><p>He noted that the parties could still file any pleading in the coming days.</p><p>“If they wish to file anything between now and in the future dates, it’s up to them,” Bantug said.</p><p>The House of Representatives impeached Duterte in early February on charges of graft, corruption and an alleged assassination plot against one-time ally and former running mate President Ferdinand Marcos.</p><p>A guilty verdict in the Senate would result in her removal from office and permanent disqualification from politics.</p><p>Duterte&#x27;s reply to the Senate impeachment trial summons delivered by messenger to House prosecutors on Monday afternoon called the complaint against her an abuse of the impeachment process.</p><p>&quot;There are no statements of ultimate facts in the (impeachment complaint). Stripped of its &#x27;factual&#x27; and legal conclusions<a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/24/sara-duterte-calls-impeachment-case-scrap-of-paper-pleads-not-guilty-2321">, it is nothing more than a scrap of paper</a>,&quot; the response read.</p><p>It went on to deny the allegations made against her as &quot;false&quot; and state that the Senate&#x27;s decision to remand the case to the House earlier this month removed her responsibility to answer them.</p><p>Her summons was issued on June 10 after an hours-long Senate session that saw lawmakers convene as an impeachment court only to send the case back to the House, a decision one lawmaker called a &quot;functional dismissal&quot;.</p><p>Barely 24 hours later, the House complied with the senior body&#x27;s order to &quot;certify&quot; the constitutionality of the impeachment.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/11/-no-one-can-stop-duterte-impeachment-trial-house-prosecutors-0735">&#x27;No one can stop&#x27; Duterte impeachment trial: House prosecutors</a></div><p>Duterte’s impeachment trial is not expected to start until the new Senate convenes on July 28.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/25/ai-fakes-duel-over-sara-duterte-impeachment-in-philippines-1301">AI fakes duel over Sara Duterte impeachment in Philippines</a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/21/marcos-jr-on-sara-duterte-s-impeachment-it-s-between-house-senate-1259">Marcos Jr. on Sara Duterte’s impeachment: It’s between House, Senate</a></div><div><strong>— With reports from Victoria Tulad, ABS-CBN News; Agence France-Presse </strong></div><div><iframe width="1250" height="703" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rJFPJqqfX4w" title="Impeachment, frequent travel issues hound VP Sara | ANC" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><iframe width="1250" height="703" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_W8r5mdoWP8" title="Sara Duterte tells Russia news program she is &#x27;frontrunner&#x27; for next Philippine president" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div>

<p>House prosecutors on Friday responded to Vice President Sara Duterte’s answer to the articles of impeachment against her.</p>

House prosecutors on Friday responded to Vice President Sara Duterte’s answer to the articles of impeachment against her.

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Sara Duterte impeachment: House replies to VP

Victoria Tulad,

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Published June 27, 2025 02:17 PM PHT

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Updated June 27, 2025 02:48 PM PHT

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