Duterte faces three impeachment complaints over alleged misconduct and misuse of millions of dollars in government funds, but legislators have yet to tackle them just days before Congress adjourns next week ahead of the May midterm elections. The year-old vice president, who is estranged from President Ferdinand Marcos but remains his constitutional successor in case he is unable to perform his duties, has denied the allegations. Impeach Sara now! Around 4, people took part in the morning rally, police said, with authorities deploying 7, riot police to keep the peace.
An impeachment will only proceed if it is backed by a third of House of Representatives members, and an impeached official can be removed from office by a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
Nine prisoners armed with homemade knives attacked guards on Tuesday, according to the justice ministry, which said the prisoners had tried to kill the guards and escape from the penal colony 20 km 12 miles east of Dushanbe. At least five prisoners were killed and three prison employees were injured, security agency sources told Reuters.
Indonesia, which has some of the world's toughest drug laws, has in recent weeks released half a dozen high-profile detainees, including a Filipina mother on death row and the last five members of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug ring. Serge Atlaoui, 61, will be driven from Salemba prison in Jakarta to the city's main airport in a convoy before being handed over to French police officers and boarding a commercial flight to Paris, due to arrive Wednesday morning.
Upon arrival, "he will be taken to Bobigny a suburb of Paris , presented to prosecutors and most likely detained while awaiting a decision on the adaptation of his sentence ", his lawyer Richard Sedillot told AFP.
