Protesters stage a rally in entrance of the Senate constructing in Pasay Metropolis on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, calling out the senator-judges for remanding the Articles of Impeachment towards Vice President Sara Duterte to the Home of Representatives. — Picture by ZACARIAN SARAO
BACOLOD CITY — The One Negros Ecumenical Council (ONEC) has referred to as on the folks to demand that the lawmakers proceed with the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
“We name on fellow church leaders, communities and all folks of goodwill to demand that the Senate and the Home fulfill their constitutional and ethical duties,” the assertion issued on June 20 learn.
“The impeachment trial should proceed, to not serve the pursuits of any political faction, however to affirm that on this nation, nobody is above the legislation,” it asserted.
ONEC expressed “deep alarm and ethical indignation” over the Senate’s determination to remand the impeachment grievance towards Duterte again to the Home of Representatives.
“This transfer, executed below the guise of procedural readability, is a betrayal of constitutional obligation and a grave affront to the values of accountability, justice and integrity that lie on the coronary heart of public service and Christian ethics,” the council stated.
It went on to say that “the allegations towards Duterte are critical and deeply troubling.”
The group cited her alleged misuse of over P612.5 million in confidential and intelligence funds throughout her tenure as vice chairman and schooling secretary.
“This quantity represents stolen futures for hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, particularly in marginalized provinces like Negros,” the group made the comparability.
“In a area the place many communities undergo from landlessness, starvation and absence of primary providers, this plunder constitutes ethical and religious violence,” ONEC emphasised.
“President Marcos Jr., in remaining silent and distant from this course of, bears duty for permitting impunity to thrive. His silence just isn’t neutrality. It’s complicity,” the council noticed.
ONEC harassed that the 18 senators who voted to remand the impeachment grievance have betrayed their oath to uphold the Structure and serve the folks.
The ONEC assertion was signed by San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza – its chairperson; retired Rev. Virgilio Amihan Jr. of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente – co-chairperson; and Bishop Fely Tenchavez of the United Church of Christ within the Philippines – council member.
The Home of Representatives beforehand authorized the impeachment grievance towards Duterte on a number of grounds, together with alleged misuse of public funds and different misdeeds – which the vice chairman denied.
The impeachment moved to the Senate.
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Two-thirds of the votes of the 24 senators are wanted for the impeachment course of to prosper. /apl
