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MANILA, Philippines — The House prosecution panel for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial said her official reply to the charges offered no “material response,” as it filed a manifestation on Monday that stopped short of a formal rebuttal as such would serve no “useful purpose” for the proceedings.
The five-page manifestation, submitted by House Secretary General Cheloy Garafil to the Senate, said that Duterte merely raised “procedural, jurisdiction and constitutional objections” instead of counter-evidence against the accusations of wrongdoing against her
“The Answer raises no material factual issue that requires a responsive pleading,” it said.
“It does not meaningfully engage the factual allegations in the Articles of Impeachment, but instead concentrates on procedural, jurisdictional, and constitutional objections directed against the continuation of the proceedings.”
