Article IX Impeachment

Article IX 
Impeachment

 

Summary: Article IX provides for the process of removing from office the President, the Vice-President, the Justices of the Supreme Court and the Auditor General. The grounds for impeachment are culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery and other high crimes. Officials can be impeached by at least two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives. Once impeached by the House, the Senate hears the impeachment case and convicts a certain official with at least three-fourths concurrence of all the members of the Senate.

 

Section 1. The President, the Vice-President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, and the Auditor General, shall be removed from office on impeachment for any conviction of, culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery, or other high crimes.

 

Section 2. The House of Representatives by a vote of two-thirds of all its Members, shall have the sole power of impeachment.

 

Section 3. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachment. When sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the Philippines is on trial, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of three-fourths of all the Members of the Senate.

 

Section 4. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the Philippines, but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to prosecution, trial, and punishment, according to law.