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'Hindi po ako nakatulog': De Lima bothered by Senate's shelving of VP Duterte impeachment

Published Aug 7, 2025 04:01 pm

At A Glance

  • So bothered was Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima over the Senate's decision to archive Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment complaint that she couldn't sleep on Wednesday night.
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima (center) (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima (center) (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)


So bothered was Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima over the Senate's decision to archive Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment complaint that she couldn't sleep on Wednesday night.
De Lima made this candid admission before House of Representatives reporters on Thursday, Aug. 7.
"Very much concerned talaga. Disconcerting. Hindi nanaman nga po ako nakatulog (I wasn't able to sleep again)," the neophyte congresswoman said when asked to react to the senators' move, which essentially shelved--if not killed--the impeachment complaint.
De Lima said that the better recourse for the Senate would have been "to table" the House-initiated impeachment raps, if only to highlight the pendency of the case before the Supreme Court (SC).
"Ang hindi po namin maintindihan, bakit pinilit nilang i-archive, instead of just you know, ano na muna, pending na muna--yung alternative action na prinopose ni former Senate President and Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Tito Sotto," she said.
(What we don’t understand is why they insisted on archiving it, instead of just, you know, mark it pending —the alternative action proposed by former Senate President and Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Tito Sotto.)
"Yun ang maganda dapat, i-table na muna. Pending the resolution of the MRs filed with the Supreme Court. Bakit sila nagmamadali? (That would’ve been the better approach, to table it first. Pending the resolution of the motions for reconsideration filed with the Supreme Court. Why are they in such a rush?)" asked the former senator.
Vice President Duterte had earlier challenged the impeachment case before the SC. On July 25, the high court voided the complaint and the articles of impeachment due to a technicality.
There are at least two MRs on the decision, including one from the House as represented by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG).
"Nineteen senators have voted to archive the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling as justification. But let us be very clear: the decision they’re hiding behind, while declared as 'immediately executory', is not yet final," De Lima said in a subsequent statement.
"A [MR] is pending. Several respected legal luminaries, institutions and groups have raised serious questions about the court’s position. And yet, the Senate could not wait," she pointed out.
"Let’s not pretend this is about 'respecting the Supreme Court'. If the senators truly respected the process, they would wait for the high court to fully decide, with finality," ML solon further said.
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