Right here’s a fast roundup of right this moment’s prime tales:
The nation’s oldest and most authoritative voice on constitutional legislation has urged the Senate to proceed with the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, reminding senators that the accountability of public officers shouldn’t be thwarted by procedural innovations or partisan maneuvering.
“At stake shouldn’t be merely the destiny of 1 official, however the integrity of the Structure itself. Impeachment is the folks’s mechanism to implement Accountability of Public Officers. It should not be thwarted by procedural invention or partisan maneuver,” the Philippine Structure Affiliation (Philconsa), led by its chairman, retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno, mentioned in an announcement.
Solely the Supreme Court docket has the ability to determine on the constitutionality of the senator-judges’ resolution to remand the Articles of Impeachment in opposition to Vice President Sara Duterte to the Home of Representatives.
This was made clear by Senate President Chiz Escudero on Friday, dismissing claims that the motion made by the impeachment courtroom blatantly violates the Structure.
Vice President Sara Duterte claimed there was fraud within the 2025 senatorial elections and that three extra Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) bets “received.”
Kalur Lumpur, Malaysia, Jayve, Jimmy Bondoc, mentioned her.
The Fee on Elections (Comelec) would name for an all-official emergency assembly following Congress’ ratification of the bicameral convention committee report on the proposed legislation extending the time period of elected barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officers.
Comelec Chairperson George Erwin Garcia, in a web-based interview on Thursday, mentioned the fee would adhere to what was agreed upon by each chambers of Congress, noting that the measure that was just lately adopted and ratified seeks to strengthen the nation’s electoral system.
The Senate didn’t wish to convene a bicameral convention committee on the proposed minimal wage hike payments and most well-liked that their model of the measure be adopted as an alternative, Home of Representatives spokesperson Princess Abante mentioned on Thursday.
Abante in an announcement mentioned that it was the Senate that killed the proposals for a minimal wage hike, as a result of Home lawmakers had been making an attempt to debate a attainable compromise between their P200 wage hike proposal and the Senate’s P100.