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…
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