The statement of Vice President Sara Duterte that she hired an assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is an “active threat,” Malacañang said Friday. The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a statement Saturday that Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin has referred the matter to the Presidential Security Command “for immediate proper action.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting

The ‘active threat’ has been referred to the Presidential Security Command for ‘immediate proper action’ following her warning.

In a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the two most powerful political families in the South-east Asian nation, Ms Duterte told an early morning press conference that she had spoken to an assassin and instructed him to kill Mr Marcos, his wife and the speaker of the Philippine House if she were to be killed.

Security protocols in the Philippines have been stepped up after vice president Sara Duterte vowed to have the president assassinated if she herself were killed. The daughter of the country's previous president Rodrigo Duterte,

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting Marcos' office to vow "immediate proper action".

Sara Duterte accused Bongbong Marcos of incompetence and said she has contracted an assassin to kill him if she herself is killed.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself was killed, amid a growing rift between the two most powerful political families in the country.