WATCH: ‘All means all,’ Azcuna says on impeachment vote threshold

MANILA, Philippines – Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Adolfo Azcuna said on Wednesday that the voting threshold to convict Vice President Sara Duterte in her impeachment trial should be based on all members of the Senate.

“As long as they are members of the Senate, they constitute the denominator in computing the two-thirds threshold because all means all,” Azcuna told the impeachment court.

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He said the Constitution requires the concurrence of two-thirds of all members of the Senate, rather than two-thirds of a quorum present at the trial.

“We need a supermajority because of the gravity of the exercise,” he said. / dp