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00:00We will talk about the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte. We will talk to Professor Dante Gatmaitan, professor of UP College of Law. Good morning professor.
00:11Good morning Egan. Good morning to all of us.
00:14Is impeachment offense the humiliation or slander of Vice President Sara Duterte?
00:21Humiliation itself is not. Slander is a different topic.
00:27In the first impeachment complaint filed in the House of Representatives, it has something to do with culpable violation of the Constitution,
00:34graft and corruption, bribery, betrayal of public trust, and other high crimes committed by Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:42Is there a high chance that the complaint will be dismissed because of the aforementioned grounds?
00:46I think there's a high chance that the complaint will not be filed in the House of Representatives if the vote was not secured.
00:53And based on the grounds you mentioned, the words used are very broad.
01:00What does culpable violation mean, what does betrayal of public trust mean, and other high crimes.
01:06Most of the things that are included in the impeachment complaint can be included in those categories, in those offenses.
01:15You need to know the substance professor, right?
01:18Yes. Based on our experience, they only need to prove one thing and they put a lot of grounds.
01:30Is the time of the House of Representatives enough to process and investigate this impeachment complaint,
01:35especially since there's another day that the election is coming up?
01:41That's what people are wondering on how to do this.
01:47In the House of Representatives, I think if there's a one-third vote, it will go directly to the Senate for a trial.
01:52To the Senate?
01:53Yes. It will go for a trial.
01:54Because impeachment is different. It will be impeached and it will go for a trial in the Senate.
01:58Yes. As a court.
02:00That's what will take a long time. We've seen that with Estrada and with Chief Justice Corona.
02:05If they can finish one ground, they can speed it up.
02:13But of course, it needs to be a court. The respondent needs to have due process.
02:18You can't rush it. You can't rush it.
02:22Yes. What's important here? The confidential funds of OVP and DepEd were investigated.
02:29Professor, the case of Plunder, while he was in office, he doesn't have immunity from suit?
02:35The vice president doesn't have immunity. Only the president has immunity. So that can be done.
02:40So what is more important, impeachment or the case of Plunder?
02:44The impeachment, if he's impeached and found guilty by the Senate, he can't run for any public office.
02:54Yes.
02:55For criminals, there's a controversy if the court needs to include the penalty of perpetual disqualification from public office.
03:06Yes.
03:07As long as it's included, depending on the case that he found guilty, he can be prohibited from running for public office.
03:18According to the vice president, it's true that he planned for the impeachment and all of this is political.
03:26You can say that because all impeachments have politics.
03:31You can also say that the way he conducted himself, it's like he opened himself to impeachment.
03:38Yes.
03:39The one who doesn't want to participate, the one who doesn't want to answer.
03:41You can say that it's a violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust.
03:48As vice president, you need to go through the process.
03:51Yes.
03:52There are arguments like that.
03:54You need to be accountable to everyone.
03:56Yes.
03:57Thank you very much Professor Dante Gatmaitan from UP College of Law. Be careful.
04:02Thank you. Good morning.