With or without contract to kill, VP made impeachable offense – lawmaker

San Juan City Rep. Maria Ysabel Zamora —File photo from the House of Representatives

MANILA, Philippines — Whether or not Vice President Sara Duterte actually executed a contract with an assassin to kill high-ranking officials, the prosecution panel believes that her statements already constituted an impeachable offense, San Juan Rep. Ysabel Maria Zamora said on Wednesday.

In a press briefing after the trial, Zamora was asked about the relevance of a possible contract between Duterte and the person she said she had tapped to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and former House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez in case she herself gets killed, in tackling Article IV of the Articles of Impeachment.

In response, Zamora said the prosecution’s stand is that the utterances alone constitute impeachable offenses.

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