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The move by the Senate to return the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives has spawned grave constitutional questions and challenged the integrity of the impeachment process, the Philippine Constitution Association said yesterday.

Senate President Francis Escudero defended yesterday the court’s move to remand the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives.

Vice President Sara Duterte has challenged Sen. Imee Marcos to bring Rodrigo Duterte back to the Philippines, noting that it was the senator’s brother, President Marcos, who had ordered the former president arrested and turned over to the Interpol and the International Criminal Court.

Having seen the carnage and human rights abuses in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III said the country should never again experience the previous administration’s hardline approach to criminality.

The impeachment trial of VP Sara Duterte has begun – despite ploys by her loyalist senators to block it.