Malacanang said it hopes the provisions of the Constitution will be followed in the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte after some groups questioned the Supreme Court (SC) ruling declaring it as "unconstitutional."

"So for us, the process which should be followed is what is in the law. There's no need to modify it to favor somebody. As long as what's in the law, they should follow it," Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said in Filipino in a radio interview last Sunday.

The SC on Friday said the articles of impeachment against Duterte violated the Constitution, which banned the filing of an impeachment complaint against an official more than once in a one year period. It added that the Vice President was not given due process.

The High Court noted that the first three impeachment complaints, which were filed against Duterte, were considered "initiated" even if they did not go through the House Committee on Justice.

Castro said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will not interfere with the impeachment complaint against Duterte.

"Let's not rely on the President for this because the President will be criticized more by the people if he interferes in that. It's more like the President is getting more political if he has a different message regarding that," she said.

However, Castro said she hopes the High Court will consider jurisprudence raised by the former justices in its succeeding decisions on the matter. DMS