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Philippines boosts security after VP's assassination threat against president

The Executive Secretary referred this threat to the Presidential Security Command for immediate action, emphasizing that any threat to the president must be taken seriously.
Security forces are coordinating with law enforcement to detect and defend against threats to the president and first family following Vice President Duterte's statement.

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The Christian Science Monitor

Why did the Philippine vice president threaten to assassinate her boss?

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte publicly threatened the life of the country’s president on Nov. 23. Under the Philippine penal code, such public remarks may constitute a crime and is punishable by a jail term and fine.

4 months ago·Boston, United States

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Slay News

Philippines VP Threatens to Assassinate President and Other Top Officials If She’s Killed

Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte has issued a chilling warning to her opponents over concerns that she may be assassinated by her political rivals. The post Philippines VP Threatens to Assassinate President and Other Top Officials If She’s Killed appeared first on Slay News.

4 months ago

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Boing Boing

Philippine vice president publicly threatens to assassinate president

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte announced Saturday that she had contracted assassins to kill president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife. Duterte warned that she was not joking and that the threat is intended as a deterrent to her own assassination. — Read the rest The post Philippine vice president publicly threatens to assassinate president appeared first on Boing Boing.

4 months ago·United States

The Philippines' vice president has publicly threatened to assassinate her boss and his wife

Vice President Sara Duterte has threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assassinated if harm were to befall her.JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images and Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesThe Philippines' top two officials are beefing so hard that one threatened to assassinate the other.Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday that she'd spoken to a hitman to kill her boss and his wife.She said that if she were to be killed, the hitman would car…

4 months ago·United States

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Latin Times

Philippine Vice President Insists Her Threat to Assassinate the President Was 'Taken Out of Logical Context'

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr stated that he found the threats levied against him by his former running mate, Vice President Sara Duterte, to be "troubling" after Duterte received backlash for placing a conditional hit on Marcos, an action she has attempted to defend herself for.

4 months ago

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Sydney Morning Herald

The Philippines VP publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

The Presidential Security Command boosted Marcos’ security and said it considered the vice president’s threat, which was “made so brazenly in public”, a national security issue.

4 months ago·Sydney, Australia

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