Rodrigo Duterte Impeachment
Philippines vice president Duterte threatens to kill President Marcos
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. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the active threat against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to an elite presidential guards force for immediate proper action. It was not immediately clear what actions would be taken against the vice president. "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, a government statement said. "Any threat to the life of the president must always be taken seriously, more so that this threat has been publicly revealed in clear and certain terms, it said. Marcos ran with Duterte as
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Philippine's ex-Prez Duterte, aide accused of awarding contracts to cronies
A former Philippine opposition senator accused ex-President Rodrigo Duterte of plundering state coffers in a criminal complaint filed Friday, alleging that he conspired with an aide to award government infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars to cronies. Filed with the Department of Justice in Manila, the accusation adds to the former president's legal worries, which include an investigation by the International Criminal Court into allegations of crimes against humanity over the widespread killings of suspects during Duterte's drugs crackdowns. Former Sen. Antonio Trillares IV said two construction companies, owned by the father and brother of longtime Duterte aide and now senator Christopher Lawrence Go, bagged more than 100 government construction contracts worth at least 6.6 billion pesos ($114 million) from 2007 to 2018 in the southern city of Davao, while Duterte was mayor. Neither company had the resources or manpower to handle large-scale infrastructure construction,
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Philippine lawmakers reject impeachment complaint against President Duterte
Duterte is accused of crime against humanity over deaths of thousands of people in his war on drugs
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