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His death was confirmed by his son Bullet Jalosjos.

The President in his fifth SONA laid out priorities such as a better transportation system and even a rocket ship launch in the future. Analysts say the speech lacked concrete financing plans.

President Bongbong Marcos, Jr. highlighted key policies on the transportation system while floating nuclear power as an option for energy security, and cutting systems loss.

Impeaching a vice president is an entirely different political exercise than involving a president, according to our political commentator.

"Politically, it suggests that the majority is already thinking defensively and trying to insulate itself from potential instability within its ranks," experts weigh in on the walkout.

Impeachment is never a simple accountability mechanism. It is a destabilizing political event.

The threat to the Senate is not arriving from outside. It is being manufactured from within, and then used as a pretext to consolidate the very power that is doing the damage.

The senator-at-large's petition to block the ICC's arrest warrant has been denied by the Supreme Court.

The Senate is still the real wild card.

 It was improbable that Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious would be back after his death in Return of the Jedi. But not that long ago, in a place not that far, far away, real life echoed the same thing.

Copying foreign legislation becomes a very poor substitute for confronting difficult domestic problems.

The question is whether the House will function as a deliberative constitutional body or as a coalition arena governed primarily by strategic calculation.

What begins as a united electoral front can gradually evolve into successive maneuverings and realignments among prospective successors.