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A member of the House prosecution team on Saturday said the leadership struggle rocking the Senate was an “extraneous matter” that would not have an impact on their evidence to convict Vice President Sara Duterte in her imminent impeachment trial.
The fight for Senate control between two factions—one of which is seen as pro-Duterte—provides the potentially unstable venue for the trial, which is scheduled to begin on July 6. Under current rules, the Senate president presides over the trial.
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“It’s an extraneous matter that doesn’t concern the prosecution panel,” Bicol Saro Rep. Terry Ridon, one of the 11 House prosecutors, said at the Saturday News Forum.
