President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (L) and Vice President Sara Duterte. In a press convention on Friday, October 18, 2024, Duterte scoffed on the emotions of Marcos over their soured friendship. | PHOTOS: Official Fb pages og Bongbong Marcos and Inday Sara Duterte
MANILA, Philippines — The assertion of Vice President Sara Duterte that she employed an murderer to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is an “energetic menace,” Malacañang stated Friday.
The Presidential Communications Workplace (PCO) stated in an announcement Saturday that Govt Secretary Lucas Bersamin has referred the matter to the Presidential Safety Command “for speedy correct motion.”
On Friday evening, Duterte stated in an internet press convention that she had already talked to an individual whom she instructed to kill Marcos, his spouse Liza, and cousin Speaker Martin Romualdez if she is killed.
“Appearing on the Vice President’s clear and unequivocal assertion that she had contracted an murderer to kill the President if an alleged plot in opposition to her succeeds, the Govt Secretary has referred this energetic menace to the Presidential Safety Command for speedy correct motion,” the Palace stated.
“Any menace to the lifetime of the President should all the time be taken significantly, extra in order that this menace has been publicly revealed in clear and sure phrases,” it added.
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Duterte’s press convention was held collectively along with her chief of employees, lawyer Zuleika Lopez, who was initially ordered detained on the Home of Representatives after being held in contempt throughout a listening to of a Home of Representatives panel that has been probing into alleged misuse of public funds with the Workplace of the Vice President beneath Duterte.
Duterte has since gone to the Home to go to Lopez, however she ultimately opted to remain within the workplace of her brother, Davao Metropolis Rep. Paolo Duterte, “indefinitely” as she vowed to guard her employees.
Lopez was later ordered transferred to the Correctional Establishment for Girls in Mandaluyong Metropolis. However Duterte, who stated she would stand as a lawyer of her chief of employees, blocked Lopez’s switch to the ladies’s jail facility.
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