A chip off the old block. The president of Philippines, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr.and his vice president, Sara Dutertetogether they won the 2022 elections by a large majority, but their alliance is firing shots today. Literally. The former president’s daughter Rodrigo Dutertewho made the dirty war against drugs his main state policy, threatened this Saturday to liquidate the son of the bloodthirsty dictator Ferdinand Marcoswho forcibly eliminated many of his rivals for two decades until he was overthrown in 1986.
«I have already spoken to a person and I have told him: If they murder me, kill Bongbong Marcos, his wife Liza Araneta already Martin Romualdez (his cousin and congressional spokesperson). “It’s not a joke, I have already given instructions,” he said. Sara Duterte in a virtual press conference. As temperamental as his father, famous for his outbursts and insults, it seems that his mouth became too hot over a judicial problem. The reason is that his chief of staff, Zuleika Lopezwas to be transferred to a women’s prison after being arrested in Congress for contempt in an investigation into funds spent by the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education, which Duterte had led.
This serious threat is the latest chapter in the ‘Pinoy’ soap opera that pits the president of the Philippines, ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, and his vice president, Sara Duterte. Taking advantage of the pull of their respective fathers, both ran together under the UniTeam coalition in the elections held in May 2022 and, on the last day of the campaign, they stood together smiling before a crowd of fervent followers in a huge, dusty field in Parañaque, near from the airport of Manila and behind the Solaire casino.
Both promised a union between the “eagle” Duterte, from the southern Muslim island of Mindanaoand the “tiger” Marcos of the ‘Solid North’ to end the social division suffered by the Philippines. But their alliance soon cracked, as ‘Bongbong’ changed Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy and moved away from China towards the United States, and the extrajudicial executions of his dirty war on drugs began to be questioned, which From 2016 to 2022, it left between 12,000 and 30,000 dead.
In June, Sara Duterte resigned from her position in the Marcos Jr. government, but remains vice president with hardly any official representation and with much less public funds, since the speaker of Congress and cousin of the president, Martin Romuáldez, has cut her off. budget by almost two thirds. In the midst of all this controversy that has shaken the Philippines, the Police are already investigating Sara Duterte for the death threats against Ferdinand Marcos Jr. because, as we know, like like father, like father.
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