Second impeachment of Sara Duterte

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On February 2, 2026, renewed efforts began to impeach Sara Duterte for a second time as Vice President of the Philippines, following her earlier impeachment by the House of Representatives on February 5, 2025. The earlier proceedings transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. However, when the Senate convened as an impeachment court on June 10, 2025, it remanded the articles back to the House. In July 2025, the Supreme Court declared the impeachment complaint unconstitutional after ruling that earlier complaints had already triggered the one-year constitutional ban on multiple impeachment proceedings, effectively aborting the trial. Following the lapse of the one-year ban, at least two new impeachment complaints were filed against Duterte. The four impeachment complaints were formally initiated on February 23, 2026, after being referred to the House Committee on Justice. On April 29, 2026, the House Committee on Justice, chaired by Gerville Luistro, voted unanimously...

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