MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday maintained that the impeachment complaint involving her alleged assassination plot against President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Marcos and former Speaker Martin Romualdez is not supported by evidence.
Duterte made the statement shortly before the commencement of Tuesday’s proceedings, where her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, is expected to be called as the House prosecution panel’s third witness.
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“On Day 4 of the impeachment trial, the country witnessed what I have been saying all along: the complaint is not supported by evidence,” said Duterte in a statement.
Duterte specified the fourth day of the trial as her defense team pointed out inconsistencies in the dates of the affidavit and docket numbers in the files of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) during one of her lawyers Mark Vinluan’s cross-examination of the prosecution’s second witness, NBI-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc.
