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The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated (apnews.com)
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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.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago

That's pretty divisive/dysfunctional. Marcos is definitely in CIA corruption pocket. There is a key conditionality in her threat that she is accusing Marcos/allies of being behind threats against her, and the threat is a "dead man switch"