International Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s deputy vows to have him assassinated if she is killed

[LeonardoBjj]

Vice-president Sara Duterte tells press conference she has given an assassin the instructions, prompting referral from Marcos’s office over ‘active threat’

Vice-president Sara Duterte says the Philippines is ‘going to hell’ under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s leadership.
Photograph: Lisa Marie David/Reuters
The Philippines’ vice-president, Sara Duterte, said on Saturday she would have someone assassinate the president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, if she herself were killed, leading Marcos’s office to vow “immediate proper action”.

In a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the country’s two most powerful political families, Duterte told a press conference that she had spoken to an assassin and instructed him to kill Marcos, his wife and the speaker of the Philippine house of representatives if she were to be killed.

“I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM [Marcos], [first lady] Liza Araneta and [speaker] Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,” Duterte said in the profanity-laden briefing. “I said, do not stop until you kill them, and then he said yes.”

Duterte was responding to an online commenter urging her to stay safe, saying she was in enemy territory as she was at the lower chamber of Congress overnight with her chief of staff. Duterte did not cite any alleged threat against herself.

The presidential communications office responded with a statement saying: “Acting on the vice-president’s clear and unequivocal statement that she had contracted an assassin to kill the president if an alleged plot against her succeeds, the executive secretary has referred this active threat to the presidential security command for immediate proper action.

“Any threat to the life of the president must always be taken seriously, more so that this threat has been publicly revealed in clear and certain terms,” it said.

Duterte’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the presidential office’s statement.

“This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn’t know how to be a president and who is a liar,” she said in the briefing.

Duterte, the daughter of Marcos’s predecessor, resigned from the cabinet in June while remaining vice-president, signalling the collapse of a formidable political alliance that helped her and Marcos – son and namesake of the late authoritarian leader – secure their 2022 electoral victories by wide margins.

The speaker, Romualdez, a cousin of Marcos, has slashed the vice-presidential office’s budget by nearly two-thirds.

Duterte’s outburst is the latest in a series of startling signs of the feud at the top of Philippine politics. In October, she accused Marcos of incompetence and said she had imagined cutting the president’s head off.

The two families are at odds over foreign policy and former president Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs, among others things.

In the Philippines, the vice-president is elected separately from the president and has no official duties. Many vice-presidents have pursued social development activities, while some have been appointed to cabinet posts.

The south-east Asian nation is gearing up for mid-term elections in May, seen as a litmus test of Marcos’s popularity and a chance for him to consolidate power and groom a successor before his single six-year term ends in 2028.

Past political violence in the Philippines has included the assassination of Benigno Aquino, a senator who staunchly opposed the rule the elder Marcos, as he exited his plane upon arrival home from political exile in 1983.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ows-to-have-him-assassinated-if-she-is-killed

- Can you guys imagine with type of fear, this lady love interest, lives with?

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Philippines vice-president: I’ll dig up president’s father and throw him in sea​

Sara Duterte makes threat against remains of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictator father in searing verbal attack

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

Sara Duterte was once allied with Marcos Jr but is now embroiled in a bitter struggle for power with him. Photograph: Rolex dela Peña/EPA

The Philippine vice-president, Sara Duterte, has threatened to dig up the remains of President Ferdinand Marcos’s dictator father and throw them into the sea, launching a scathing attack on her rival.

Duterte was once allied with Marcos Jr, and ran on a joint ticket with him in the 2022 election, winning a landslide victory. However, she resigned from the cabinet in June and the two powerful dynasties are now engaged in a bitter struggle for power before next year’s midterm elections, with both also preparing for presidential polls in 2028.


The stakes are especially high for the Dutertes, as the vice-president’s father, the former president Rodrigo Duterte, is facing an investigation by the international criminal court (ICC) for crimes against humanity over his bloody “war on drugs”.

In a press conference on Friday, Sara Duterte launched her fiercest attack yet on the president, saying the country was on a “road to hell”, that his administration lacked clear policies to tackle inflation and food security, and that she had once thought about cutting off his head.

Duterte said she had been left feeling “used” after teaming up with Marcos before the 2022 election. She realised their relationship had become toxic, she said, after watching him apparently cause the “humiliation” of a young graduate.

The graduate had asked Marcos if he could have Marcos’s watch as a graduation gift, only for Marcos to ask him to repeat the question, and then to ask why he should do so, prompting the laughter of those around – and the humiliation of the graduate, she said. “I wanted to remove his head. I realised the relationship was already toxic,” she said. “ just imagine myself cutting his head,” she repeated, gesturing with her hands.

Tensions between the two rivals have increased after a recent investigation alleging that Duterte has presided over the misuse of public funds, something she has denied, as well as recent parliamentary hearings on the “war on drugs”, which heard claims the office of Rodrigo Duterte paid “rewards” of up to $17,000 to police who killed drugs suspects.

- Forgot Malcom Mom, Lois was hot.

Rodrigo Duterte has denied authorising killings. However, he repeatedly and openly threatened drug dealers with death before and during his presidency.

Marcos Jr has previously said he would not comply with the ICC’s investigation into the “war on drugs” but analysts say it is possible he could change his stance if he senses his rivals are politically weak.

Sara Duterte said if political attacks against her did not stop, she would throw the body of the late dictator Marcos Sr into the sea. “One of these days, I will go there. I will get the body of your father and throw it in the West Philippine Sea,” Duterte said, using the Filipino name for the portion of the South China Sea claimed by Manila.

In 2016, when relations between the two families were warm, Rodrigo Duterte caused controversy by allowing a hero’s burial with military honours for Marcos Sr. The late dictator is accused of having plundered up to $10bn from state coffers during his rule, and of presiding over widespread human rights abuses.

The presidential communications secretary, Cesar Chavez, said Marcos would not be responding to Sara Duterte’s remarks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...uterte-ferdinand-marcos-threat-remains-father

 

[Heisenboom]

Balls
She has them.

 

[Corona]

Lol at this Manila 0.

 

[Richmma80]

Duterte used to ride around in a Harley Davidson at night and kill criminals

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

 

[Seano]

WTF, Lois was not hot.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

This is probably closest to House of the Dragon IRL. The Marcos and Duterte camp were in league when they ran for Prez-VP only two years ago. As some predicted, a schism happened because it was only a "marriage of convenience". The Marcos clan is from the far north, while the Dutertes from the far south.

After the 2022 win, Sara Duterte was a shoo-in for the 2028 Prez elections but the Marcos clan wanted that spot to be held by a loyalist of theirs. Thing is, the likely Marcos-backed bet would be Martin Romualdez who is very unpopular and a practical no name before 2022. They needed to devise ways to dirty Sara's reputation by a series of hearings of misappropriation of funds among others. These tactics were very effective and after about a year of badgering, Sara's reputation has taken a huge hit. She is backed into a corner and acting desperate and angsty.

No clear contenders on who will be the 2028 Presidential favorite.

 

[ShinkanPo]

Ehh Tatak Duterte as they say.

Ganyan naman yang mga yan asar talo at mamamatay tao.

Kwkwkwkekwk

Mga Gago! Bobo!

 

[ShinkanPo]

This is probably closest to House of the Dragon IRL. The Marcos and Duterte camp were in league when they ran for Prez-VP only two years ago. As some predicted, a schism happened because it was only a "marriage of convenience". The Marcos clan is from the far north, while the Dutertes from the far south.

After the 2022 win, Sara Duterte was a shoo-in for the 2028 Prez elections but the Marcos clan wanted that spot to be held by a loyalist of theirs. Thing is, the likely Marcos-backed bet would be Martin Romualdez who is very unpopular and a practical no name before 2022. They needed to devise ways to dirty Sara's reputation by a series of hearings of misappropriation of funds among others. These tactics were very effective and after about a year of badgering, Sara's reputation has taken a huge hit. She is backed into a corner and acting desperate and angsty.

No clear contenders on who will be the 2028 Presidential favorite.

I cant believe I am suporting a Marcos to be honest.

I voted a Robredo last election.

But I will take a Marcos over a Durrterte.

Durrtete style of leadership and rethoric is something else he is like a hybrid of Idi Amin and a pig rectum.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

I cant believe I am suporting a Marcos to be honest.

I voted a Robredo last election.

But I will take a Marcos over a Durrterte.

Durrtete style of leadership and rethoric is something else he is like a hybrid of Idi Amin and a pig rectum.

Aside from the massive blatant corruption, which is expected, Marcos is doing a pretty good job IMO. I am wondering what Trump's relationship with BBM be like in the next few years.

 

[ShinkanPo]

Aside from the massive blatant corruption, which is expected, Marcos is doing a pretty good job IMO. I am wondering what Trump's relationship with BBM be like in the next few years.

Yes in terms of foreighn policy and bringing back an image of professionalism Marcos is pretty much on point.

Marcos is supposed to be another populist but his way of communicating his policies seems to be very chill and moderate, no big man bravado speach etc.

When asked about what are his plans about the Nuclear energy talks to improve the power greed, Marcos said he would rather talk and listen to advice of experts in the field instead of going on an immediate rant about why Nuclear is the future or why it is it bad yada yada yada.

But offcourse like as expected the man is corrupt and a spoiled person he has some questionable appointments in his cabinet.


I think Trump will just follow pretty much the Biden policy towards PH. And Marcos will just cooperate.

The irony of this timeline though could not be overstated.

With the growing threat of China it is like the early 70s again, where the USAs position in SEA is threatened with the imminent fall of South Vietnam at hands of Soviet backed north.

The red scare in the Philippines is real back then knowing the US may not be able to help if an all out war breaks out.

And so the Philippine President during that time none other than the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. declated martial law and began the infamous extended pressidency.

So what a time to be alive I told my 72 year old mother
.

Another cold war, another communist threat another Marcos.

 

[Natural Order]

Just send him a few pairs of shoes, Im sure it will blow over.