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Claim: Cagayan de Oro 1st District Representative Atty. Lordan Suan voted in favor of impeaching Vice President Sara Duterte because an additional budget for “ayuda” (financial aid) was provided after the vote.
Rating: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: A quote card containing this claim was first posted on a Facebook page named “Working Congressman” that has 1,900 likes and 5,000 followers. The post gained over 106,000 reactions, 42,000 comments, and 49,000 shares before it was deleted.
The quote card continues to circulate in various posts in Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The facts: The quote from the viral image is fake. On February 6, Suan publicly denounced this statement on his official Facebook page.
“I never issued that statement. This is FAKE NEWS and BLACK PROPAGANDA aimed to mislead the people and tarnish my name, that of Speaker Martin Romualdez, and the House of Representatives,” he said.
He then clarified that he voted to impeach VP Sara for accountability reasons, and was not a personal attack against her.
The page falsely attributes statements to Suan by misrepresenting his reasoning and posing as the creator of the page himself. Moreover, Suan neither claimed that the Dutertes were “just using us” nor suggesting that additional budget allocations, or “ayuda,” influenced his vote.
Suan later reaffirmed his decision to impeach Vice President Duterte via a joint statement with Misamis Oriental 1st and 2nd District Representatives Christian Unabia and Bambi Emano, respectively, adhering to the principles of “transparency, accountability, and due process.”
Impeachment vote: Suan was one of 240 out of 306 representatives of the lower house who voted for the impeachment of the Vice President last February 5.
Duterte was impeached on the grounds of constitutional violations, graft, betrayal of public trust, and other high crimes which were not fully disclosed. This follows three complaints filed in December that included misuse of confidential funds and being involved in a plot to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Suan is seeking reelection as representative of CDO’s First District this coming elections.
While the House of Representatives has already impeached VP Duterte, the final verdict rests with the Senate. Senate President Chiz Escudero announced that no impeachment trial will occur during the current Senate break, meaning, proceedings will resume only after the June 2025 national midterm elections. – Cyril Bocar/Rappler.com
Efren Cyril Bocar is a student journalist from Llorente, Eastern Samar, enrolled in English Language Studies at the Visayas State University. A managing editor of Amaranth, Cyril was an Aries Rufo Journalism Fellow of Rappler for 2024.
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