Marcos on VP Sara's possible impeachment: 'Why waste time on this?'

LUCENA CITY — Despite their apparent rift, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is not supportive of any impeachment plan against Vice President Sara Duterte.

Marcos expressed belief that an impeachment plan would not benefit the lives of Filipinos.

“This is not important This does not make nay difference to even one, single Filipino life, so why waste time on this?” Marcos told reporters.

“What will happen to the-- if somebody files an impeachment? It will tie down the House, it will tie down the Senate. It will just take up all our time, for what? For nothing. None of this will help improve a single Filipino life. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a storm in a tea cup,” he added.

Marcos also confirmed a text message where he was urging lawmakers not to file an impeachment complaint against the Vice President.

“Well, it was a private communication pero na-leak niya. Yes, because that’s really my opinion,” Marcos said.

The message was: “In the larger scheme of things, Sara is unimportant. So please do not file impeachment complaints.”

Earlier, several members of the House of Representatives said there was no talk yet as regards the filing of an impeachment complaint against Duterte amid her widening rift with the President and Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.

Romualdez was tight-lipped when asked for his comment about impeachment plans against Duterte at the sidelines of the bicameral conference committee meeting on the 2025 national budget.

To recall, it was during a virtual press conference last week when Duterte said she would have Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and Romualdez killed if she herself was assassinated.

She later clarified that her “kill” remark was taken out of logical context. Her statement drew criticisms from several government officials and even legal experts.

In response to Duterte’s scathing statement, Marcos vowed to resist the "criminal attempts" that threaten his life. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News