A Facebook (FB) reel is claiming that Vice President Sara Duterte is having the same fate as Fernando Lopez Sr., the vice president of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., who was supposedly impeached in 1966. This is false.
No reliable sources state that Lopez was impeached during his vice presidency. News reports, local historians and political pundits have cited Duterte as the first-ever Philippine vice president to be impeached.
Uploaded on June 26, the reel bore an overlaid text that read:
“HISTORY REPEATED B4 VP Fernando Lopez Impeach Ni Marcos Sr Now VP Sarah Duterte impeach Ni Marcos Jr. laban2x vp Sarah
(HISTORY REPEATED Before, VP Fernando Lopez was impeached by Marcos Sr. Now, VP Sarah Duterte is impeached by Marcos Jr. Fight, fight VP Sarah)”
According to a briefer on the vice presidency from The Official Gazette, Lopez, who was in his second term as vice president under Marcos Sr., was set to serve until Dec. 30, 1973.
However, his term was cut short with the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972, based on the briefer which was republished by ABS-CBN News in 2016. Under this regime, the 1973 Constitution, which was ratified to replace the amended 1935 Constitution, abolished the vice presidency.
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