Speaking at the Saturday News Forum, House Committee on Justice member Terry Ridon said the 106 votes in Congress would be enough to move the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte to a Senate trial.

“The House Committee on Justice has very high confidence that the 106 votes needed to impeach the Vice President will be met and, correspondingly, it will go to the Senate for trial,” he said.

Ridon said the impeachment case would be subjected to plenary debate once it reaches the House floor.

The justice committee is set to approve its committee report on Monday, with the articles of impeachment already incorporated in the document.

“As soon as it is approved at the committee level, it will go to the plenary next week,” Ridon said, adding that the matter would then undergo full deliberation.

Following the approval of probable cause, Ridon said the complaints would be consolidated into a final set of articles to be presented on Monday.

“These would be the final articles for impeachment, consolidated from the two impeachment complaints,” he said.

The lawmaker added that the final articles would include allegations of misuse of confidential funds, including the P448 million flagged for return from the Office of the Vice President, as well as alleged unexplained wealth involving P6.77 billion in total transactions linked to the Duterte-Carpio couple and P4.4 billion in net inflows into their bank accounts.