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Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian has shot down Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s proposal for an interim sharing of administrative responsibilities to prevent the still simmering challenge to his leadership from derailing the upcoming impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.

Vice President Sara Duterte visited a pilgrim church in Leyte last week and prayed for peace in the country and for the return of her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, to the country.

The House impeachment prosecution team will not file a reply, only a manifestation, to the answer of Vice President Sara Duterte to the Articles of Impeachment against her.

The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division has partially granted the motion of former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan to be placed under hospital detention while his plunder and graft cases linked to the multibillion-peso flood control scandal are pending.

If the two warring camps in the Senate issue separate notices regarding the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, the House prosecution panel will appear before acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian, lead prosecutor Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro said.