The message got a little degenerate between Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte – the daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who became infamous for his drug war – and the incumbent president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator. between. The Guardian according to in a profanity-laced press conference, Sara Duterte suddenly announced that she had made a deal with a hitman who she instructed to kill Ferdinand Marcos, his wife, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez, should she herself be killed. “I’m not kidding.” I’m not kidding, he added. Incidentally, Martin Romualdez is the head of state’s cousin.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his office’s response, he envisaged immediate action. “The Vice President’s clear and unequivocal threat to hire an assassin to kill the President if an alleged plot against him succeeds was referred by the Executive Secretary to the Presidential Security Service and ordered to take immediate and appropriate action. Any threat to the president’s life must always be taken seriously,” the office of the head of state said.
By the way, Sara Duterte drew attention to the comments of a commenter who warned her on the Internet to take care of herself in the “enemy” area The vice president, writes the Cebu Daily News – remained in the lower house of the congress until late at night, where his chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, was questioned by parliamentary committees about the 612 and a half million pesos (converted to 4.1 billion forints) of support that was managed to disappear in the vice president’s office or was not used for the designated purposes.
The threat is a sign of the deepening rift between the Philippines’ two major political dynasties, the Marcos and Duterte families. Previously, Sara Duterte had already announced that she considered Ferdinand Marcos Jr. unfit, and had fantasized in public about simply cutting off the president’s head.
According to The Guardian, however, such a degree of opposition between the president and the vice president can arise if the two posts are decided by the Philippine voters in a separate election. Otherwise, the vice-president has no substantial official duties.
Source: nepszava.hu
