Nothing is going well between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, son of former dictator Marcos who died in 1989, and his vice president, Sara Duterte, 46, daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte (2016-2022). Their dispute took a somewhat alarming turn on the night of Friday to Saturday, November 23 when Mme Duterte, during an online press conference, responded to a vlogger concerned about her: “Don’t worry about my safety because I’ve already spoken to someone.” I told him that if they killed me, I had to kill BBM, Liza Araneta and Martín Romualdez. “I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding” she got angry. BBM appoints president “Bong Bong” Marcos, Liza Araneta his wife and Martín Romualdez, his cousin, president of the National Assembly. Therefore, the vice president claims to have hired a hitman to take revenge on these three personalities if she herself were murdered.
Today, the two families were once close allies: Bongbong Marcos was elected in 2022 thanks to the popularity of his predecessor, the populist Duterte (Philippine presidents are only entitled to one term), who placed his daughter alongside him as vice president. . But this understanding quickly disintegrated. The Dutertes are in a desperate situation: the father, still the subject of an investigation by the International Criminal Court for his “war on drugs”has been the subject of a commission of inquiry in the House of Representatives since November 13. Her daughter has been heard since September by another House of Representatives investigative committee for embezzlement as vice president, after having been heard in 2023 for embezzlement as Secretary of Education, a position from which she resigned. These procedures could lead to your “accusation” after a vote in Congress, according to the American model.
It is in this context that M’s “departure” occurred.me Duterte. The vice president, who describes herself as the victim of a conspiracy aimed at torpedoing her chances in the next presidential elections in 2028, has been refusing for weeks to participate in interrogations and even to take the oath before deputies. Those around him are also obstructive. To the point that on November 20, the Good Government Commission of the Assembly, listening to its chief of staff, Zuleika López, ordered his internment in the House of Representatives for “improper obstruction of proceedings”. The next day, November 21, Mme Duterte moves to the office of his brother, a congressman, in Parliament, to support his chief of staff. However, on Friday, November 22, at the end of the day, the deputies ordered the transfer of Mme López in a women’s prison…
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