MANILA: On Tuesday, November 26, Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte denied that she was planning to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos, claiming that her remarks that prompted a government investigation were only a sign of her “consternation” with her former friend.
On Monday, the nation’s justice department referred to Duterte as the “confessed mastermind” of an assassination plan against the president and issued a subpoena for her to attend a formal investigation.
The action came after Duterte told reporters that, if an alleged conspiracy to kill her succeeded, she had given one of her security team members orders to kill Marcos, his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos, and cousin Martin Romualdez.
Duterte’s apparent retraction of those remarks on Tuesday was due to the Marcos administration’s “failure to serve the Filipinos while it masterfully persecutes political enemies.”Farce” is another word she used to describe the government’s plan claims.
“We should be able to comprehend and agree that a purported conditional act of retaliation does not represent an active threat using common sense alone. In a statement, Duterte declared, “This is a plan without flesh.
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