Points invoked vs VP Sara Duterte within the first impeachment rap in opposition to her

MANILA, Philippines – The coalition of civic organizations that initiated the submitting of an impeachment grievance in opposition to her on Monday, December 2, spared no controversy in attempting to have Vice President Sara Duterte faraway from workplace.

The group of 16 complainants, whose designated spokesperson is former senator Leila de Lima, invoked 24 articles of impeachment, below at the least 4 grounds listed within the 1987 Structure.

These are:

1. Culpable violation of the Structure; graft and corruption
   • Article 1: Duterte’s supposed failure to account for P125 million in confidential funds of the Workplace of the Vice President in 2022
   • Article 2: Duterte’s supposed failure to account for the P150 million and P500 million in confidential and intelligence funds that the Workplace of the Vice President (OVP) and the Division of Training (DepEd) obtained in 2023
   • Article 3: Duterte’s refusal to reply questions surrounding her proposed OVP finances for 2025 and her dealing with of DepEd funds within the earlier years throughout Home proceedings
   • Article 4: Her supposed squandering of P2.735 billion in secret funds throughout her three phrases as Davao Metropolis mayor
   • Article 5: Her try and request a complete of P650 million in secret funds for her workplaces for 2024, which might have continued “her sample of abuse and squandering of public funds”
   • Article 6: The P12 billion in disallowances, suspensions, and prices she left DepEd with
   • Article 7: The P7 billion in unliquidated money advances she left DepEd with
   • Article 8: The P15.4 billion in unutilized funds she left DepEd with in 2023
   • Article 9: The alleged rigged bidding of laptops and different ICT supplies through the Duterte-led DepEd
2. Bribery; culpable violation of the Structure
   • Article 10: Her alleged ill-gotten wealth and laundering of P111 million in funds, deposited in her private account, and a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of pesos deposited in an account she held collectively together with her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, from 2007 to 2015
   • Article 11: Her and her household’s alleged involvement in bribery, by the supposed unexplained receipt of a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of funds from drug personalities
   • Article 12: Her supposed failure to mirror the questionable financial institution deposits in her Assertion of Property, Liabilities, and Web Price
   • Article 13: Her alleged unlawful observe of her career as a lawyer, when she maintained a legislation workplace whereas she is vice chairman
3. Betrayal of public belief
4. Different excessive crimes
   • Article 16: Duterte’s supposed direct involvement within the extrajudicial killings in Davao Metropolis when she was mayor from 2011 to 2013, and from 2016 to 2022
   • Article 17: Her implied menace to attendees of the State of the Nation Handle, when she known as herself the “designated survivor“
   • Article 18: Gross incompetence and dereliction of obligation throughout her second time period as Davao Metropolis mayor, regardless of “huge sources accessible”
   • Article 19: Her protection of intercourse trafficking and baby abuse defendant Apollo Quiboloy
   • Article 20: Her act of “throwing a tantrum” when 75 police personnel as soon as assigned to her had been recalled
   • Article 21: Her supposed unexplained wealth, as mirrored in her SALNs from 2007 to 2017
   • Article 22: Her and her household’s alleged receipt of considerable funds from drug personalities
   • Article 23: Duterte’s public meltdown on October 18, when she threatened to dig up the corpse of dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and throw it into the West Philippine Sea, and when she claimed she as soon as imagined decapitating the incumbent president
   • Article 24: Duterte’s admission that she requested an murderer to kill President Marcos, First Woman Liza Araneta Marcos, and Speaker Martin Romualdez, if she had been to be killed

– Rappler.com