Vice President Sara Duterte clarified on Saturday that her statement that she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Speaker Martin Romualdez, and First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos assassinated if she were killed was not a threat.

The statement of Vice President Sara Duterte that she hired a person to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is an “active threat,” Malacañang said

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.