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Only Congress has the authority to remove the country’s top officials, contrary to a viral TikTok claim that the Supreme Court has voted to oust President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. 

The video posted on April 7 by @redscorpion.738 features a clip of Net25 public affairs show “Sa Ganang Mamamayan” in which the hosts discussed a supposed Supreme Court decision to remove the president:

Nagdesisyon po ang korte suprema na tanggalin na ‘yung president na ‘yan […] Eh sabi nila ang dami mong paglabag eh, tanggalin ka na namin (The Supreme Court has already decided to remove the president. They said that due to the president’s numerous violations, it is time for them to be removed from power). 

However, Marcos has not been impeached nor has any petition been filed against him before Congress. 

The misleading video used a spliced a clip from the show’s full April 4 episode, which only showed the hosts’ lead-in to a segment covering the South Korean Constitutional Court’s unanimous decision to uphold President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment announced earlier that day.

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