The House that Vice President Sara Duterte faced on August 27 was no longer the institution that once succumbed to her wishes to have a speaker ousted, or a chamber that twice granted her a free pass for her budget request. It's a fallout that didn't happen overnight.
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Towards the end of her speech, and before a lengthy presentation on salient points of her budget request, she also accused lawmakers — to their face — of plotting her impeachment, and claimed she had recorded conversations to prove it. On August 13, the appropriations panel approved a motion, introduced by the often ostracized Makabayan bloc, compelling the Commission on Audit to hand over to the House copies of its audit reports on the OVP’s confidential funds in 2022 and 2023. The leftist lawmakers had been requesting those documents for the longest time; that colleagues in the majority joined them in their request was no ordinary feat.
In a chamber dominated by a supermajority alliance which towers a minuscule opposition, rogue lawmakers are rare these days.before it hurdled the appropriations panel. Duterte, who was the running mate of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the 2022 elections that they had won by a landslide, received a warm welcome from the House, with Speaker Martin Romualdez even personally gracing the hearing to offer his support.
Religious followers of the developments in the lower chamber were not shocked by this turn of events. House members, after all, are now more at ease criticizing Duterte in press briefings sanctioned by the House leadership, and their anti-Duterte remarks frequently find their way into press releases distributed through the chamber’s official channels.
The point is: Duterte getting a free pass in previous years was the result of lawmakers toeing the party line. Logic dictates that the confidence of House members to throw questions at her this year is also because of that same party line. Rappler has it on good authority from a source that the House also sent similar letters to Duterte in 2022 and 2023 — years when she was accorded parliamentary courtesy.
During that hearing, the combative Duterte — accompanied by only one staff member in the room — accused lawmakers of a deliberate effort to malign her and bring her down. Lawmakers have since accused Duterte of trying to win the court of public opinion, by clinging to an image of a helpless politician being ganged up on by bullies., Manila 6th District Representative Bienvenido Abante theorized that the Vice President wanted the House to cite her in contempt and detain her.
Ramon Beleno III, a Davao-based political analyst, said he was still surprised by Duterte’s behavior despite her tendency to be stubborn.
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