{"id":2278,"date":"2026-07-06T05:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:08:37","slug":"impeachment-trial-begins-for-philippine-vice-president-sara-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment trial begins for Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA, Philippines \u2014 The Philippine Senate, acting as an impeachment court, will open the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday in a politically volatile event that will unfold with the backdrop of her bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.<\/p>\n

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More than 6,000 police officers, including anti-riot squads, were deployed to secure the Senate, where pro-and anti-Duterte demonstrators were expected to converge. Duterte or her lawyers can appear at the start of the trial, which will run for 92 days, according to a pretrial plan seen by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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If convicted of the charges, which include amassing unexplained wealth and publicly threatening to have Marcos assassinated, Duterte may be permanently disqualified from holding public office. She denies the charges.<\/p>\n

A conviction would be a lethal blow to her announced plan to seek the presidency in mid-2028, when Marcos ends his six-year term. They were running mates in the 2022 elections in a whirlwind alliance that combined the vote-getting power of two of the country\u2019s most formidable political dynasties, but the union rapidly fell apart.<\/p>\n

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