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Evasion is not a defense

Calling the charges “baseless” does not make them disappear. Declaring them “political” does not answer them… Until the vice president confronts the allegations directly and fully, the issue will not fade into politics. It will remain a matter of responsibility left unresolved.

Evasion is not a defense

A ruling that reshapes the road to 2028

In the end, the question is not merely whether Sara Duterte can run in 2028. It is whether the country is prepared to confront the tension between political power and legal accountability, and what it means when the two collide long before a single vote is cast.

A ruling that reshapes the road to 2028

Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit

Madriaga, in a notarized affidavit dated Nov. 29, 2025 claimed that Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, security chief at the OVP, made him deliver large sums of money taken from Duterte’s confidential funds at the OVP and the DepEd to several persons “thus confirming how Respondent Duterte and her co-respondents converted the subject confidential funds to their own personal use, contrary to the actual purposes for which the same was earmarked and/or purportedly disbursed.”

Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit