Under the Philippine penal code, such public remarks may constitute a crime and can be punishable by a jail term and fine.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the « active threat » against . to an elite presidential guards force « for immediate proper action. » It was not immediately clear what actions would be taken against the vice president.President Ferdinand Marcos Jr
The Presidential Security Command immediately boosted Marcos’ security and said it considered the vice president’s threat, which was « made so brazenly in public », a national security issue.
The security force said it was « coordinating with law enforcement agencies to detect, deter, and defend against any and all threats to the president and the first family. »
Marcos ran with Duterte as his vice-presidential running mate in the and both won with landslide victories on a campaign call of national unity.May 2022 elections
The two leaders and their camps, however, rapidly had a bitter falling-out over key differences, including in their approaches to China’s aggressive actions in the disputed . Duterte resigned from the Marcos Cabinet in June as education secretary and head of an anti-insurgency body.
