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Philippine Court Issues Arrest Warrant for VP Sara Duterte
Duterte has been charged with threatening the lives of Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and his cousin, former House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
The case stems from a November 2024 virtual press conference where the Vice President revealed an apparent assassination plot against Marcos, his wife, and Romualdez.
“I already talked to someone—I told him, If I’m killed, kill [Marcos], Liza Araneta, and Martin Romualdez,” she said in Filipino, “No joke, no joke. I already gave orders. If I die, I told them, ‘Don’t stop until they’re dead.’ And then he said, ‘Yes.’”
The threat is also one of the allegations included in the impeachment complaint against Duterte, on top of alleged misuse of public funds as Vice President and during her stint as Education Secretary. Duterte has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
The Vice President is currently standing trial at the Philippine Senate, serving as an impeachment court, following her second impeachment in May. If convicted in the impeachment court, she could be removed from office and barred from running in the 2028 national elections, where she said she plans to contest the presidency.
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