{"id":159592,"date":"2018-04-11T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159592"},"modified":"2018-04-11T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:16:54","slug":"house-will-impeach-sereno-in-may-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/11\/house-will-impeach-sereno-in-may-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"House will impeach Sereno in May \u2014 Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. Sereno. (Photo<\/a> by Center for Strategic & International Studies\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Responding to the call of President Rodrigo Duterte to fast-track the impeachment proceedings of the top magistrate, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said members of the House of Representatives will approve the committee report and the articles of impeachment against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno within one to two weeks after session resumes in May 15.<\/p>\n

“Ang talagang intensyon namin diyan ay aprubahan sana iyan sa<\/em> plenary bago kami<\/em> mag<\/em>-break noong nakaraang… itong<\/em> break lang namin<\/em> (Our intention was to approve these in the plenary before we took a break),” Alvarez said in an interview with GMA\u2019s News To Go on Wednesday, April 11.<\/p>\n

“Hindi lang umabot pero<\/em> I\u2019m sure, siguro pagbalik namin, baka<\/em> first week or second week tapos na kami diyan <\/em>(It just wasn\u2019t finished on time but I\u2019m sure when we resume,\u00a0probably we will be done\u00a0within the first or second week of the session),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

According to Alvarez, at least one-third of House members are needed to approve the articles of impeachment and it will be brought to the Senate for trial.<\/p>\n

The Justice panel on March 8 affirmed that there is probable cause in the allegations that the Chief Justice committed culpable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust, corruption, and other high crimes.<\/p>\n

On March 19, six drafts of the impeachment articles against Sereno\u00a0were approved by the Justice committee.<\/p>\n

Chair of the Justice committee of the lower chamber Oriental Mindoro Representative Reynaldo Umali said that the impeachment article drafts included 24 out of 27 of the \u201cimpeachable acts\u201d by Attorney Lorenzo \u201cLarry\u201d Gadon.<\/p>\n

Thirty-three of the members of the committee headed by Umali voted\u00a0their approval of the drafts, while one dissented.<\/p>\n

[READ:\u00a0House panel approves impeachment articles vs Sereno<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Duterte earlier said that he will request the Congress to speed up the top magistrate\u2019s impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will see to it and after that, I will request the Congress go into the impeachment right away,\u201d the President said on Monday before his flight to attend the Boao Forum for Asia in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m putting you on notice that I\u2019m your enemy and you have to be out of the Supreme Court (SC),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Sereno accused Duterte to be behind the moves to remove her from her post in the High Court through a quo warranto petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida.<\/p>\n

[READ:\u00a0Duterte to Sereno: I\u2019m your enemy<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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