When the impeachment complaint was filed against Estrada in October 2000, only 40 representatives — 28 from the opposition Lakas-NUCD and 12 party-list groups — had signed the complaint.

Second, President Joseph Estrada was impeached by the House, but before the Senate could finish his trial EDSA II took place and the Supreme Court declared that Erap constructively resigned.

We must not repeat what happened during former president Joseph "Erap" Ejercito Estrada's botched impeachment trial. In 2000, during the run-up to that impeachment trial, two powerful former ...