Sara Duterte, Vice President of the Philippines, has criticized recent claims suggesting an active threat to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s life. She stated that the administration's narrative has been misinterpreted and that there is no real evidence to support these claims. Duterte also highlighted the 'diametric contrast' in the government's response to threats against her and her staff.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte described the insistence that the President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. 's life is under active threat as 'ominous.'In a statement issued on Tuesday, Duterte added that the administration sold its narrative based on her statement that she hired someone to kill Marcos, first Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez if she gets killed, which she described as 'taken out of logical context.
This is a plan without a flesh,' Duterte reiterated.She said that she was confident that an 'honest scrutiny' would expose the narrative to be a 'farce, imagined, or nothing at all,'In a press briefing at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, Duterte asked the administration if a 'revenge from the grave' constituted a crime.'I have to die first, they have to kill me first so now they can't kill me anymore, unless they want to die.
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