MADRID 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The security service of the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has activated this Saturday the maximum alert due to an “active threat” against his life after the vice president, Sara Duterte, said she had ordered his assassination in the event that she dies. .
“Any threat against the president’s life must always be taken seriously. In this case, especially because it has been publicly revealed in clear terms,” the Philippine Presidency said in a statement.
Thus, the Presidential Security Command (PSC) has intensified and strengthened its security protocols while coordinating its actions with the country’s security agencies and forces to “detect, deter and defend against each and every threat to the president.” and his family,” says the text, published shortly after Duterte said he had contacted an unidentified person to ask him to kill Marcos, his wife, Liza Araneta, and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Martin Romualdez, in case she herself is murdered.
“This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who does not know how to preside and who lies,” said Duterte, who asked “not to worry about his safety.”
“Don’t worry about my safety. I have spoken to a person and I have told him: if they kill me, they should kill Marcos, the first lady and Matin Romualdez. It’s not a joke. It’s not a joke,” he stated before emphasizing that He has asked him “not to stop until he kills them all.”
Relations between the Marcos and Duterte families have worsened significantly in recent months ahead of the 2025 midterm general elections. The daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte insists she is the target of an assassination plot.
The dispute escalated in June, prompting Duterte to resign as education minister. A few months earlier, his father had accused Marcos of being a “drug addict,” while Marcos attributed these statements to the serious deterioration of Duterte’s health due to prolonged use of fentanyl, an opioid. For now, neither of them has provided evidence to support their accusations.
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