Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua highlighted on Thursday, May 15 the swashbuckling election victories scored by many pro-impeachment congressmen during the just-concluded mid-term elections.

Chua played up this fact amid a claim that administration Senate bets under the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas ticket faired poorly in the Mindanao region because of the impeachment issue against Vice President Sara Duterte. She is from Mindanao.

"Wala naman akong idea sa political situation sa Mindanao. Kaya lang nagtataka ako kung bakit yung mga congressmen na pumirma sa impeachment complaint, very active sa quad-comm, ay nanalo," said Chua, chairman of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability or the Blue Ribbon Committee.

(I don’t really have an idea about the political situation in Mindanao. But I’m just wondering why the congressmen who signed the impeachment complaint—those who were very active in the quad-comm—ended up winning.)

"Nabigyan sila ng fresh mandate (They were given a fresh mandate)," he underscored. 

Duterte is the first vice president to ever be impeached in the country’s history. Much of the allegations in her impeachment were lifted from findings of Chua panel--also known as the House Blue Ribbon Committee--and to a lesser degree, the quad-comm hearings.

Online troll content leading to May 12 polls have called for a boycott on candidates who backed the impeachment against the Vice President.

"Nagtataka lang po ako kung papano po nanalo yung mga very active na nag-participate sa quad-comm, sa Blue Ribbon Committee, at tsaka mga pumirma sa impeachment. Sila talaga, directly involved dito," Chua said.

(I’m wondering how those who were very active in the quad-comm, the Blue Ribbon Committee, and those who signed the impeachment complaint won. They were really directly involved in this.)

A total of 215 House member signed Vice President Duterte's impeachment complaint. It was submitted to the Senate last Feb. 5.

Among the pro-administration solons who signed the document and still won reelection were Chua, Manila 1st district Rep. Ernix Dionisio, and Manila 2nd district Rep. Rolando Valeriano. Valeriano, through a resolution, was the one who initiated the Blue Ribbon panel hearings against Duterte.

A bunch of "Young Guns" bloc solon who called out Duterte on her various impeachment allegations were also reelected. They are Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-Jay" Suarez, Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro, La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega, Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, and Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun, just to name a few.

Navotas City lone district Rep. Toby Tiangco, campaign manager of Alyansa, saod in a DZBB radio interview Thursday that the Vice President's impeachment became a factor in Mindanao as far as the voters there were concerned.