PBBM, reaffirms support to VP Sara Duterte amid oust plot

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00:00 Never has there been a very long while a tandem of a president and vice president that has

00:05 supported each other well throughout the campaign trail and beyond, assuming the very elective

00:09 posts they sought more than a year ago.

00:12 Thus, almost expectedly, the president recently expressed his unequivocal support to the second

00:18 highest official of the land amid rumors of a plan to impeach the latter.

00:23 Again, Kenneth Pachanda tells us more.

00:28 Despite the issue of alleged plan to oust Vice President Sara Duterte, President Ferdinand

00:33 R. Marcos Jr. stressed his continued support to the vice president.

00:37 "We are watching her well because we don't want her to be impeached.

00:43 She does not deserve to be impeached.

00:45 So we will make sure that this is something that we will pay very close attention to."

00:52 The chief executive explained, "These types of issues are not new, especially with high

00:57 ranking officials.

00:59 Especially there are some individuals who are opposed with the results of the last national

01:03 elections."

01:04 "It's just a continuing evolution of that thinking.

01:10 We don't want her there.

01:13 Let's remove her.

01:14 Let's impeach her.

01:15 There's no reason if she doesn't want us.

01:23 That's not a reason to be impeached."

01:26 President Marcos Jr. also stressed that UNITEAM is still intact and is getting stronger.

01:32 "These are the same people that talk about impeachment.

01:34 They are also the same people that say UNITEAM is now gay.

01:39 That's not true.

01:40 Just look at the political developments in the past few months."

01:43 The president also emphasized the good personal relationship he has with VP Sara and that

01:48 he sees nothing else but her good work in the Department of Education.

01:51 VP Sara is confident in the chief executive's support.

01:55 "I will just continue what I said yesterday because I wasn't asked why I think that I

02:01 still have the trust of President Marcos.

02:04 So I will just repeat, I believe I still have the trust of President Marcos Jr.

02:10 Why?

02:11 Because before he left, I asked him about the impeachment and he told me the truth that

02:19 he knows about the impeachment."

02:22 The issue of impeachment against VP Sara surfaced after the Congress removed OVP's and DepEd's

02:27 confidential funds for next year and ousted Pampanga 2nd District Representative Gloria

02:32 Macapagal-Arroyo as deputy speaker, who is known to be Duterte's ally.

02:37 Kenneth Paciente for The Nation.