The House prosecution panel has highlighted on Thursday, June 18 respondent Vice President Sara Duterte 's absence in the pre-trial conference for her own Senate impeachment trial. Prosecution panel spokesperson Kabataan Party-list Rep. Renee Co and Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto...
Ranking congressmen verbally tore apart the pre-trial brief submitted by Vice President Sara Duterte 's camp to the Senate impeachment court, as they noted it was anything but "brief". According to Deputy Speaker La Union Party-list Rep. Paolo Ortega V and Assistant Majority Leader Lanao del...
House "Young Guns" bloc members La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V and Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong are batting for a lowered threshold of senator-judges votes to determine conviction in Vice President Sara Duterte 's upcoming Senate impeachment trial. This, as both...
House Assistant Majority Leader Lanao del Sur 1st Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong called out Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong for making an "irresponsible and unfair" allegation as to the supposed extent of corruption in the House of Representatives. Adiong said that instead of firing off on practically...
Ranking House of Representatives members have lambasted China for the reported deployment of a floating structure within the waters of Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) in Zambales less than a month before the 10th anniversary of the Philippines ' arbitral award. Criticizing Beijing 's...
House prosecution panel spokesperson Lanao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong is taunting impeachment respondent Vice President Sara Duterte 's legal team for allegedly having nothing to offer in terms of counter-evidence. This, despite Duterte 's tapping of a highly-regarded law...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense team will have to unveil the supposed individual that is “Mary Grace Piattos” before the respondent 's actual impeachment trial, if she is to be presented as a witness. Thus, said House prosecution panel spokesperson Lanao del Sur 2nd district...
House Assistant Majority Leader Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong has a very low opinion of the June 4 Senate Blue Ribbon Committee "hearing" that discussed the flood control projects mess. In a statement Sunday, June 7, Adiong gave what he believed was the best description of the...
Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong is seriously considering the filing of a libel case against the 18 Marine-bagmen who have accused him of receiving cash-filled luggages or "maleta" as payoffs for anomalous flood control projects. Adiong 's and a collection of other names of...
Another non-answer. That 's how House impeachment prosecutor Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon described Vice President Sara Duterte 's answer before the Senate sitting as an impeachment court on Monday, June 1. "The House prosecution panel will submit its reply within the mandated...
The identities of the private prosecutors who will be helping the House prosecution team attain a conviction against the impeached Vice President Sara Duterte remains a closely-guarded secret. Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro, head of the public prosecutors from the House...
Last May 11, Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa surprised everyone by showing up at the Senate for the first time in five months--a move that made possible the Senate coup d 'etat that installed Alan Peter Cayetano as Senate President. That 's exactly the kind of courage that Lanao del Sur...