2025 information report used to say VP Sara is now impeached

The Home impeached Duterte in 2025, however the Supreme Court docket later declared this unconstitutional. Proceedings on new impeachment complaints filed towards Duterte in 2026 are ongoing.

Declare: Vice President Sara Duterte has now been impeached by the Home of Representatives.

Ranking: MISSING CONTEXT

Why we fact-checked this: A Fb reel from Toto Leomel has garnered 117,000 views, 2,000 reactions, 280 shares, and 210 feedback because it was posted on March 1.

The reel contains a clip from a GMA Information report about Duterte’s impeachment within the Home of Representatives. “Sa kauna-unahang pagkakataon, isang bise presidente nga ng bansa ang inimpeach ng Kamara. Inindorso ng 215 na kongresista ang pang-apat na impeachment criticism laban kay Vice President Sara Duterte, sobra sa kailangang 102 o one-third ng lahat ng miyembro ng Kamara para hindi na ito litisin dito sa Kamara,” the reporter stated.

(For the primary time ever, a vp of the nation has been impeached by the Home of Representatives. The fourth impeachment criticism towards Vice President Sara Duterte was endorsed by 215 Home members, greater than the required 102 or one-third of the whole Home members for it to not be tried right here within the Home.)

A textual content overlay added to the reel reads, “VP Sara Duterte impeach[ed] na, kauna-unahang pagkakataon”(VP Sara Duterte is impeached, for the primary time)” and “Courtesy: GMA7.”

A number of feedback beneath the submit believed the declare within the video to be true, with a blended response of anger and celebration amongst some.

The details: The video clip within the submit was from a GMA Information report final yr, when the Home impeached Duterte on February 5, 2025. The Supreme Court docket later declared this unconstitutional, successfully stopping the impeachment proceedings towards her.

The 2025 information report was taken out of context because it was reposted at a time when Duterte faces new impeachment complaints filed in 2026. The 2025 report was misrepresented as the newest growth within the renewed impeachment drive towards the Vice President.

The 2 energetic impeachment complaints towards Duterte — one filed by clergy members and one other filed by lawyer Nathaniel Cabrera, each filed in February 2026 — have been deemed enough in type and substance by the Home justice committee on March 2 and 4, respectively.

Following this, Duterte was served a discover by the committee, giving her 10 days to answer the allegations towards her. Her camp acquired it on March 5, however she has but to reply as of this writing.

The petitions search Duterte’s elimination from workplace for numerous alleged offenses, equivalent to misuse of confidential funds, bribery of training officers, obvious threats to the lifetime of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his household, and her supposed unexplained wealth.

New impeachment drive: That is the second time that the Home is looking for Duterte’s impeachment. In 2025, a complete of 215 lawmakers, or greater than two-thirds of the Home’s 306 members, backed the decision that led to the transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

Nonetheless, no trial befell as a result of her impeachment case was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court docket because of the “one-year bar rule.” Article XI, Part 3(5) of the Structure states that “impeachment proceedings [cannot] be initiated towards the identical official greater than as soon as inside a interval of 1 yr.”

Progressive and civil society leaders refiled recent impeachment petitions towards Duterte after the one-year bar lapsed. (READ: What’s new in refiled impeachment complaints vs Sara Duterte?)

On this newest impeachment drive, the Home justice committee has 60 session days from February 23 to concern a choice on the impeachment bid. – Princess Leah Sagaad/Rappler.com

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