Impeachment Articles Filed: Villar Targets Estrada's Corruption
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar rammed through articles of impeachment against President Joseph Estrada on corruption charges, triggering a constitutional crisis that gripped the nation. The impeachment trial's collapse months later sparked the People Power II uprising that drove Estrada from office and installed Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
November 13, 2000
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