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MANILA, Philippines — Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon on Saturday said only the impeachment court can decide on the number of votes needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte in the impeachment trial.
Ridon was asked if the threshold should be lowered amid the nonattendance of some senator-judges at the impeachment trial. Article XI, Section 3 of the 1987 Constitution states that “[n]o person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate,” or at least 16 of the 24 senators.
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“Yung pagtingin naman po namin dyan ay sa dulo, it is not for the prosecution or defense to determine the threshold. It is for them. It is for the senator-judges to make that determination,” he said during the Saturday News Forum.
