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Lacson: Only an impeachment court can dismiss an impeachment case
Manila Bulletin
|June 7, 2025
Senator-elect Panfilo Lacson rejected the claim in a draft resolution traced to the office of Senator Ronald dela Rosa that the Senate can dismiss the impeachment case against the Vice President Sara Duterte without even holding a trial.
In a statement Friday, June 6, Lacson—a returning senator in the upcoming 20th Congress insisted that only the Senate, convened as an impeachment court, render a decision on the matter.
"There is no sense in the draft resolution calling for the de facto dismissal of the impeachment case against Vice President Duterte," Lacson said, referring to the second highest official of the land who was impeached by the House of Representatives back on Feb. 5.
"Only the Senate as an impeachment court can render a decision on the matter, not the Senate as a legislative body, as the latter has no jurisdiction or legal authority to do so," he stressed.
Dela Rosa, an ally of the Duterte family, admitted to being the source of the draft resolution in question.
This story is from the June 7, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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