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NEW: The Philippines, one of Southeast Asia's biggest oil importers lack the capacity to store more fuel. It also lacks the ability to build them.

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Correction: Annotation should read: "one-year bar rule".

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8 in 10 (80%) House members voted to impeach Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the highest share of lawmakers in recent record of impeaching a public official.

The Constitution requires a share of 1 in 3 (33%), a goal that has been easily met in previous impeachments.

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Government debt is again on national agenda these days.

Here's our earlier explainer on how to read government debt data and why increasing liabilities in peso terms is not necessarily bad per se (barring other things, of course).

From July 2025
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4. Elections chair Andres Bautista
Resigned from office, Oct. 11, 2017.

See more on our earlier piece: https://t.co/ePekm5O8YL

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As the House of Representatives prepares to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte (again), here's a look at past impeachment experiences of the Philippines from an earlier piece. 🧵

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3. Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez
Resigned from office, April 29, 2011.

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Philippine lawmakers are expected to hold a vote to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte this week.

Under the Constitution, 1/3 of the House membership should vote to impeach for trial to proceed in the Senate. Previous impeachments of other officials easily hurdled that number.

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte reported no cash on hand or in bank from 2019 when she was Davao mayor to 2024 when she was vice president, according to data presented on the House hearing her impeachment.

The data is based on her SALN for years she was in public office.

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Based on what was released to the public so far, about P206 billion of projects to be funded have been identified. As of April 1, the budget department said it has released allotment for about P125 billion of the funds.

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The Philippine national government has set aside P238 billion on its budget to respond to the Middle East oil crisis.

The budget will come from the 2026 and 2025 outlays and will fund, among others, cash assistance to PUV drivers, medical assistance and gov't fuel purchases.

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NEW: Philippine officials have refused have refused to call the current surge in the country's oil prices a "crisis." The data says otherwise.

Here's our quick take -- and chart -- on the current oil supply problems in the Philippines.

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Read more about the anti-dynasty bills in our earlier piece: https://t.co/M9x0uDSPti

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The House of Representatives approved the anti-dynasty bill version filed by Speaker Faustino Dy and Majority Leader and presidential son, Sandro Marcos.

The bill, according to our analysis, is the weakest and most inferior among all anti-dynasty proposals in the Lower House.

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Over 2 million Filipinos were based in the Middle East as of June 2024, latest data from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas showed.

Broken down, over 35% of Filipinos in the region were located in Saudi Arabia, while over 30% were in the UAE.

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has officially declared that she will run for president in the 2028 elections, where she is the frontrunner.

The announcement was unusually early for a candidate, including former VPs that sought the highest office after their term.

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Under the Constitution, there are two ways an impeachment can be filed at the House of Representatives. Observers colloquially call them the “long” and “fast track” methods.

The Supreme Court established some guidelines how to go about them.

Read: https://t.co/8eTkdfRjWN

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NEW: The Philippine Supreme Court tightened impeachment rules in a January ruling that invalidated impeachment efforts against Vice President Sara Duterte. Long story short: it all boils down to time.

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