President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday once again backtracked on her threat of having President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. killed, saying it is “a plan without flesh.”
Duterte made the statement after Malacañang tagged her previous remarks of having hired someone to kill Marcos, his wife Liza, and cousin House Speaker Martin Romualdez as an “active threat.”
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“Common sense should be enough for us to understand and accept that a supposed conditional act of revenge does not constitute an active threat. This is a plan without a flesh,” her statement reads.
“I am confident that an honest scrutiny would easily expose this narrative to be farce, imagined, or nothing at all,” she added.
According to Duterte, Marcos and “his sycophants” are merely “aggressively” pushing a narrative that she maintains to have been taken out of logical context.
“The diametric contrast and inaction are displayed when I have expressed in previous months threats to my person and continuing threats to the life of OVP personnel,” she added.
She also lambasted the Marcos administration’s use of the word “assassin,” pointing out that she never used the term in her statement.
After her threat against Marcos last Saturday, the National Bureau of Investigation said it is set to issue a subpoena to the Vice President to have her explain her side as the agency investigates the supposed murder plot.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Justice said Duterte’s threat against Marcos showed her “lack of recourse to legal and judicial remedies,” which “exposes” her to criminal liabilities.