The Philippines' lower house has impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country's firebrand former president, setting the stage for a rare, high-profile trial in the Senate.

After the vote in the House, the Senate will rule only in June, after the midterm elections. Several representatives from the Duterte family’s stronghold of Mindanao voted in favour of impeachin

More than half of the members of the House of Representatives voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte from her position, with Presidential son and Senior Deputy Majority Leader Sandro Marcos the first to sign the complaint,