Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr's deputy vows to have him assassinated if she is 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.

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.

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's comments come amid a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the country's two most powerful political families, signaling the collapse of a formidable political alliance.

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