House Speaker Martin Romualdez has described reports that Vice President Sara Duterte's Senate impeachment trial won't push through at all as merely "speculative".

In a chance interview with reporters on Monday, June 2 during the inauguration of the new multi-purpose covered court at the House of Representatives, Romualdez was asked to react on the whispers that the impeachment case was already a lost cause at the Senate.

"Well, everything is speculative at this point. But we hope things resolve itself positively for all. Thank you," the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) president and Leyte 1st district congressman said.

Congress (House and Senate) resumed its sessions on Monday after a lengthy four-month recess. It was the House that transmitted Vice President Duterte's verified and duly-endorsed impeachment complaint to the Senate last Feb. 5.

In what was viewed as a setback for the House--particularly its prosecution team--the Senate postponed it scheduled reading of the articles of impeachment from June 2 to 11, or the last session day of the 19th Congress.

Romualdez took this development in stride and said that the impeachment case was already in the hands of the upper chamber.

"Yung impeachment complaint ay nasa Senado na (The impeachment complaint is already with the Senate). So we leave it to their sound discretion as to how they want to proceed and conduct. The Senate President [Francis "Chiz" Escudero] outlined the priority measures like the LEDAC (Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council) measures that they would like to prioritize first. 

So, we have to respect the decision of the Senate President and the Senate...it's best we leave it to the sound discretion of the Senate on how they plan on disposing of it," Romualdez said.

Escudero earlier said that the deferment of the impeachment procedure would allow senators to take up priority bills under LEDAC.