The numbers game

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impeached, Vice President Leni Robredo or President Rodrigo Duterte will surely cause a furore among the Filipinos.

Impeachment is the filing of a formal complaint against any impeachable government official such as the president, the vice president of the Philippines, justices of the Supreme Court, members of Constitutional Commissions and the Ombudsman, and the grounds can be any of the following: culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes or betrayal of public trust. The limit is that, only one impeachment complaint may be filed in a year. Regardless of its defect in form or content, one attempt can bar subsequent ones within a year.

While impeachment is a prelude off. The is just on the to a trial before the Senate, both beck and call of the President. These

supermajority processes (impeachment and trial 200 members can easily kill any before the senator- jurors) are a attempt to impeach anyone, but it numbers game. will be a litmus test for the senators

Being i mpeached does not of their independence, integrity and mean conviction. Impeachment sensibility. requires only one third vote of On the other hand, the claim that the 292 members of the House the House of Representatives is not of Representatives, thus, getting a rubber stamp is something to be 97 votes i s sufficient for an doubted. Don’t forget what happened impeachment complaint to take to those who did not vote for death penalty, being stripped off of their leadership or chairmanships in certain committees.

We are already deluged with so many problems. So, “leave us well enough alone.” When the government rowers row the boat in different directions, the boat just go round and round. When they paddle the boat, unmindful of the depth or shallowness of the sea, we may all sink.

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