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<img src="https://cdn.kahimyang.com/resources-24/vp-sarah-duterte.avif" alt="Vice President Sara Duterte" loading="lazy" />
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(Vice President <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/2867/today-in-philippine-history-may-31-1978-sara-duterte-a-creative-leader-shaping-philippine-politics-was-born-in-davao-city" class="news_link"><b>Sara Duterte</b></a>)
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Sara certainly wasn't being melodramatic when her very first statement in her press conference after the House of Representatives announced that they had the minimum votes needed to ask the Senate to convene an impeachment trial:
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 "God save the Philippines." 
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This is one of those rare times I do hope there is a deity.
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If Sara is removed through an impeachment trial, as sure as the sun sets in the east, President Marcos Jr. will appoint - subject though to the Congress' majority approval - his cousin Speaker Martin Romualdez to fill the post. This will enhance Romualdez's name recall and expand his political reach to win the 2028 presidential election. The Marcoses are also superstitious and wouldn't want to challenge the purported jinx that no speaker of the House has ever been elected president. 
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(Under the Constitution's Article VII, Section 9, if Sara is removed as vice president, "the President shall nominate a Vice-President from among the Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, who shall assume office upon confirmation by a majority vote of all the Members of both Houses of the Congress, voting separately.")
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Despite being reviled by many Filipinos, it would be a walk in the park for Romualdez to win in the 2028 presidential elections. He has proven his capacity and immorality to mobilize billions of pesos in taxpayers' money for his political campaigns. Only Sara has the massive political force to stop Romualdez.
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It will be the turn of Marcos' son Alexander to sit on the throne through the next elections in 2034, as he turns 40 two months before the May polls that year, the Constitution's minimum age to run for president.
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Ironic
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It is certainly ironic and a testament to the rottenness of the Communist Party that its Makabayan party-list representatives are at the vanguard of the plot to perpetuate the Marcoses' rule. The 50,000 communist cadres and Red fighters killed in their struggle since the 1970s to overthrow the elder Marcos' regime must be screaming from their graves. So have the Yellows demonstrated again their notorious stupidity by joining the Reds in Marcos' blitz to remove Sara.
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This impeachment conspiracy by the Marcos-Romualdez cabal is nothing but a political assassination plot against Sara: she is the only obstacle to this cursed clan's plan to remain in power beyond 2028. After recapturing power 40 years after it was toppled and reviled, the Marcos clan's revenge has only just started.
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However, this is just the Marcos-Romualdez clan's wishful scenario, which I hope is enough warning. I'm sure it will be foiled just like its first plot to amend the Constitution to allow Romualdez to become prime minister in a parliamentary system was stopped in its tracks early last year by the Senate.
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Impeachments are nothing but political duels, and their outcomes do not hinge on any legal process but on which political force is powerful and clever enough to dominate the other.
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President <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1078/today-in-philippine-history-april-19-1937-erap-estrada-was-born-in-tondo-manila" class="news_link">Erap Estrada</a> was on the way to being found guilty by the Senate impeachment court in 2001. It was the forces of his predecessor <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1022/today-in-philippine-history-on-march-18-1928-fidel-ramos-was-born-in-lingayen-pangasinan" class="news_link">Fidel Ramos</a> and the Yellows that wanted to remove him from power. Ramos was convinced Estrada was planning to jail him for corruption in the sale of the Public Estates Authority the reclaimed land along Manila Bay to the Amari Coastal Bay Resources Corp., allegedly at grossly undervalued prices. The deal was estimated to involve around P1.8 billion in kickbacks. The Cojuangco clan, on the other hand, wanted to make sure the Supreme Court ruled favorably on its case to have its Hacienda Luisita awarded billions of pesos in compensation for its fake land reform.
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If Sara is ousted as VP, we'll have 18 years of Marcos rule