The Clergy for Good Governance (CGG), a nationwide Catholic clergy organization, is calling on senators to uphold the Constitution now that the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has moved to the Senate.
The appeal was made after the House of Representatives gathered more than the required votes to impeach Duterte the second time, and has transferred the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate.
However, the group saw that the sudden change of leadership in the Senate raised public fears and said that accountability could be sacrificed again for political survival. On the same day the House of Representatives voted for the impeachment, then-Senate President Vicente Sotto III was ousted and replaced by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano.
“This is no longer just about personalities or politics. It is about whether our institutions still have the courage to place truth above power, conscience above convenience, and the Constitution above political interests,” it said.
The CGG also told senators that millions of Filipinos still hope justice applies equally, regardless of power or political status, and urged lawmakers not to make the Senate “become a place where accountability is avoided and truth is weakened by political compromise.”
At this critical moment, the Senate must decide whether it will stand for truth and accountability,” the clergy said.