THE House committee on justice of the House of Representatives has deemed the impeachment complaint filed against Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Juan Andres Bautista “moot and academic” following President Rodrigo Duterte’s acceptance of his resignation. We no longer treated the main item of the agenda which was for the articles of impeachment to be approved by the committee,” Garcia said. Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, justice committee chairman, said that there was nothing to transmit to the Senate. I will report to the plenary that the impeachment was overtaken by events, mooted by the acceptance of the resignation. Umali added that the impeachment complaint would be officially terminated once the committee report was submitted when plenary sessions resume in November.

Source: Manila Times October 24, 2017 06:11 UTC