Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte declared in a weekend press conference that she instructed a hitman to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and House Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were to be killed.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday issued a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte regarding her alleged assassination threat against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Department of Justice (DOJ) Undersecretary Margarita Gutierrez disclosed this during a public briefing.

Duterte accuses the administration of twisting her words to create a false narrative that Marcos’s life was under active threat, and says her remarks were a ‘conditional act of revenge’

The NBI on Tuesday afternoon served the subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte following her remark that she ordered someone to kill President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. if an alleged plot against her succeeds.

Philippine authorities handed a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte’s office Tuesday, inviting her to answer investigators' questions after she publicly threatened to have the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker assassinated if she were killed in an unspecified plot herself.

The summons from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) requires Duterte to appear at its offices on Nov. 29. According to the summons, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Du

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday vowed to uphold the rule of law after Vice President Sara Duterte spoke about having the leader assassinated if she gets killed.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday denied she was plotting to kill President Ferdinand Marcos, saying her comments that sparked a government probe only reflected "consternation" with he

The Philippines justice department on Monday labelled Vice President Sara Duterte the "mastermind" of a plot to assassinate the country's president, giving her five days to respond to a subpoena.