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Ridon says VP Duterte could get impeached again on Feb 9

Published Feb 6, 2026 10:04 am  |  Updated Feb 6, 2026 01:14 pm

At A Glance

  • Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon has raised the possibility that Vice President Sara Duterte could get impeached for a record second time as early as Monday, Feb. 9 by the House of Representatives.
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB, Facebook)
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB, Facebook)


Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon has raised the possibility that Vice President Sara Duterte could get impeached for a record second time as early as Monday, Feb. 9 by the House of Representatives.
This, after Ridon noted that House Secretary General Cheloy Garafil already transmitted the two verified and endorsed impeachment complaints to the office of Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III on Thursday, Feb. 5.
"Now that the impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte have been transmitted to the Office of the Speaker, we can expect these to be included in the Order of Business of the House plenary for action as early as Feb. 9, 2026," Ridon said.
"This, however, does not preclude one-third of all House members from endorsing articles of impeachment against the Vice President for direct transmittal to the Senate, so long as no plenary referral has yet been made to the House Committee on Justice," the lawyer-solon pointed out.
As of the end of the previous plenary session last Wednesday, Feb. 4, the roll of the House had 316 members. A one-third vote in this case is 105.
Vice President Duterte, daughter of fellow administration critic former president Rodrigo Duterte, became the first such Philippine official to get impeached on Feb. 5, 2025 when at least 215 House members signed a complaint containing seven articles of impeachment against her.
This was, at that time, more than twice the number of endorsers needed to send the complaint directly to the Senate.
The Supreme Court (SC) ultimately dismissed the complaint due to a technicality in the filing process, while the Senate never held the actual impeachment trial against the Vice President.
The complainants had to wait one year to file fresh complaints against her by virtue of the one-year bar rule.
If no one-third fast-track endorsement occurs on Monday, then the Committee on Rules, through plenary, may just refer the two new complaints to the Committee on Justice and initiate the impeachment process.
If the complaints hurdle deliberations at the justice panel, it will be taken up for approval in plenary and sent to the Senate just the same under this longer route.
Among the arguments for Vice President Duterte's impeachment was her alleged misuse of P612.5 million worth of confidential funds under the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and Department of Education (DepEd).
Mary Grace Piattos
With the impeachment proceedings against the lady official seemingly imminent, Ridon says that the time is ripe to unmask the infamous "Mary Grace Piattos".
“Kung merong silang totoong taong Mary Grace Piattos, magandang mailabas nila sa mga gaganaping pagdinig (If they truly have a real person named Mary Grace Piattos, it would be good for them to present her in the upcoming hearings)," he said.
The name was among those who allegedly received part of the Vice President's confidential funds, as discovered by the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability during hearings in the previous 19th Congress.
Mary Grace Piattos is an amalgam of a name of a popular local cafe and a bag of potato chips.
Among the other bogus-sounding names that were found srcibbled on acknowledgment receipts were Mico Harina, Ralph Josh Bacon, Patty Ting, Sala Casim, Amoy Liu, Fernan Amuy, Joug De Asim, and Xiaome Ocho.
For House Deputy Minority Leader ACT Teachers Party-list. Antonio Tinio, there is no need to wait for the impeachment proceedings for the Vice President to answer who Mary Grace Piattos is.
“Hindi kailangan hintayin ang impeachment para sagutin ang tanong tungkol sa confidential funds. Karapatan ng mamamayan na malaman kung ano ang ginawa ng Vice President sa kanilang pondo,” Tinio said.
(There is no need to wait for impeachment to answer questions about the confidential funds. It is the people’s right to know what the Vice President did with their money.)
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