Gerville Luistro not faraway from Home

Three days after the declare was posted, DZMM Teleradyo interviews Luistro, the place she is launched as Batangas 2nd District consultant

Declare: Batangas 2nd District Consultant Gerville Luistro has been faraway from workplace. 

Ranking: FALSE 

Why we fact-checked this: A publish printed on March 10 containing the declare has already obtained 14,398 reactions, 4,700 feedback, and 643 shares, and continues to realize engagement as of this posting. 

It was posted following the Home justice committee’s listening to on the impeachment complaints in opposition to Vice President Sara Duterte, the place Luistro serves as chairperson. 

The publish reveals a composite picture of Duterte, Senator Rodante Marcoleta, and two photographs of Luistro: a crying one, and one other with stacks of money on a desk.  The textual content on the picture reads: “Luistro sinibak. VP Sara nilantad na si Mary Grace Piatos (Luistro fired. VP Sara reveals Mary Grace Piatos).”

The caption additionally implies that the impeachment in opposition to Duterte has been “orchestrated” by greater officers in Congress, indicating that she was only a sufferer of politics. 

Many of the feedback empathized with Duterte. One commenter wrote, “Lumaban ka VP SARA labanan mo ang mga salot sa gobyerno ni Marcos Jr (Battle VP Sara, struggle the plagues within the Marcos Jr. authorities), which is a authorities that’s good for nothing however corruption and stealing.“

The information: Luistro has not been faraway from workplace. On March 13, 2026, three days after the false declare was posted, Luistro appeared in an interview with DZMM Teleradyo, the place she was launched as Batangas 2nd District consultant.

Luistro’s profile additionally stays seen on the official web site of the Home of Representatives as Batangas 2nd District consultant and justice committee chairperson. 

Manipulated picture: The picture of Luistro with stacks of money on a desk in entrance of her is manipulated. The unique picture was printed in Journal Information On-line in 2023. It reveals a pile of paperwork and never money. 

Within the picture, Luistro was with former Division of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manny Bonoan after which undersecretary Roberto Bernardo for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Tingloy Circumferential Highway development in Batangas. 

Reverse picture search additionally reveals that the crying picture of Luistro was initially an picture of her with a clean expression throughout a Home listening to. The picture was posted as early as June 2025. 

No impeachment vs. Luistro: The Home has not initiated any impeachment grievance in opposition to Luistro as a result of in accordance with the 1987 Philippine Structure, members of the Congress are usually not impeachable. They’re those accountable for initiating and judging the impeachment course of itself. As a substitute, they’re held accountable by means of their very own inside guidelines, which permit for suspension or expulsion by a two-thirds vote of their colleagues. 

Beneath Article VI, Part 16 of the 1987 Philippine Structure, solely members of the legislative chamber have the unique energy to “decide the foundations of its proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly conduct, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its Members, droop or expel a Member.”

In the meantime, below Republic Act No. 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, public officers might also face “perpetual disqualification from public workplace” as soon as convicted with finality of corrupt practices. 

Impeachment complaints: Luistro heads the Home justice committee’s listening to for the impeachment complaints in opposition to Duterte, the place two complaints have been declared ample in substance.

In her response to the complaints, Duterte criticized the alleged “double requirements” of the Home in dealing with impeachment proceedings, evaluating her case to that of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. She argued that regardless of severe allegations of corruption in opposition to Marcos, the Home justice committee dismissed the complaints in opposition to the President. 

She additionally identified that the allegations of Ramil Madriaga — her former worker, who claimed that he had coordinated with Duterte’s safety officers to move money to quite a few people — have been “unsubstantiated.”

Debunked: Rappler has beforehand debunked comparable false claims about public officers and the impeachment: 

– Angelee Kaye Abelinde/Rappler.com 

Angelee Kaye Abelinde is a pupil journalist based mostly in Naga Metropolis and an alumna of Rappler’s Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship 2024. 

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