MANILA: Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Saturday (Sep 5), a day after an arrest warrant was issued over her alleged death threat against the country’s president.
Duterte was charged last month with “grave threats” stemming from a late-night news briefing in which she claimed to have hired a hitman to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, his wife and a congressman cousin should she be cut down first.
She later said the comments had been misconstrued.
The alleged assassination threat also forms a crucial element of her ongoing Senate impeachment trial, where a guilty verdict would see her removed from…
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