MANILA, Philippines – The first impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte with the House of Representatives on Monday, December 2, listed a total of 16 signatories.
The group is composed of former elective and appointive officials, members of the academe and the Catholic Church, and civil society leaders.
They are:
- Gary Alejano, former lawmaker who represented party-list group Magdalo in the House from 2013 to 2019, and seeking a congressional comeback in 2025
- Rowena Amon
- Filomena Cinco, who served as barangay chairperson in Manila
- Sylvia Estrada Claudio, doctor of medicine, and professor emerita of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, representing civil society organization Every Woman
- Sister Mary Grace de Guzman, SFIC
- Francis “Kiko” Dee, political science lecturer who is the grandson of late democracy icons Ninoy and Corazon Aquino
- Ging Deles, presidential peace adviser during the Gloria Arroyo and the Noynoy Aquino administrations
- Sister Susan Santos Esmile, SFIC
- Eugene Louie Gonzalez, second nominee of party-list group Magdalo for the 2025 polls
- Yvonne Christina Jereza, third nominee of party-list group Magdalo for the 2025 polls
- Teodoro Lopez
- Alicia Murphy, urban poor advocate
- Leah Navarro, singer and activist
- Father Roberto Reyes, activist-priest popularly known as the “running priest”
- Randy delos Santos, uncle of slain teenager Kian delos Santos, and field coordinator of Project Paghilom, which helps families of other drug war victims
- Father Flavie Villanueva, activist-priest who heads Project Paghilom
Former senator Leila de Lima is not a signatory in the complaint, but said she is the designated spokesperson of the group.
The complaint filed by the group was endorsed, in accordance with the Constitution, by neophyte lawmaker Perci Cendaña of party-list group Akbayan. – Rappler.com