The vice-president’s husband has also filed a complaint against senior officials and lawmakers for ‘leaking’ the couple’s bank information
Congressman Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers Partylist predicted the action would be taken “sometime after May 4 when [the Senate] resumes”.
Once the request is submitted, the 24-member Senate is required by the 1987 constitution to sit as senator-judges and try the vice-president, with Senate President Vicente Sotto III presiding over the trial.
Duterte-Carpio had said as early as January 29 that she and her husband had long retained lawyers. “They were hired as early as the fourth quarter of 2023, the moment that one of the members of the House of Representatives announced that they would file a case against me.”
Source: News - South China Morning Post
