The Senate impeachment court may hold oral arguments before deciding whether Vice President Sara Duterte can be compelled to testify in her own impeachment trial.
The Senate impeachment court has scheduled 11 full-day hearings in October for Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial before shifting attention to budget deliberations.
The Senate impeachment court will consult legal experts before deciding whether to retain the 16-vote threshold for conviction in VP Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial.
Lead prosecutor Gerville Luistro said Filipinos have the right to personally hear VP Sara Duterte answer the allegations raised in her impeachment trial.
Impeachment is framed less as accountability and more as background noise, teaching citizens that power absorbs shocks without consequence while governance quietly loses direction and urgency.
Power remains intact, but direction has faded. What looks like movement in politics increasingly feels like noise, leaving citizens with uncertainty, rising costs, and the quiet erosion of trust in leadership.
Power remains, but momentum slips, as the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. drifts from direction to reaction, showing how leadership can weaken without a crisis.
Publicly floating persona non grata threats turns a precise diplomatic tool into applause politics, shifting focus from Chinese misconduct to domestic noise and weakening the very authority the state is meant to protect.
Philippine tourism struggles not from lack of assets, but from leadership that prioritizes messaging over systems, coordination, and hard economic decisions.
Impeachment has shifted from a last resort to background noise, shaping governance through threat and delay rather than decisive constitutional action.