MANILA, PHILIPPINES - JUNE 30: Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., together with the new Vice President Sara Duterte, pose for pictures after taking his oath as the next President, at the National Museum of Fine Arts on June 30, 2022 in Manila, Philippines. Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.
A simmering monthslong feud between the president and vice-president of Philippines, each part of separate political dynasties, erupted over the weekend with an apparent public death threat.CBC NewsPhilippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice-President Sara Duterte pose for pictures after taking their oaths of office on June 30, 2022, in Manila. The political alliance has imploded over the course of this year.
Raising allegations of an unspecified plot on her life, Duterte said, in the event of any untoward death, she'd already contacted "somebody" to kill Marcos and his wife, Liza Araneta. Also on the apparent target list is Martin Romualdez, a Marcos cousin who is the House Speaker where the inquiry is taking place.Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte speaks to the media at the House of Representatives, in Quezon City, Philippines, on Monday.
The tumultuous times continued into the 1980s, with the assassination of previously jailed and exiled Marcos critic Benigno Aquino Jr., who was killed just hours after returning to the country. Military figures were put on trial for the Aquino killing, though there was no established link to Marcos Sr.
Marcos Jr. was a provincial governor when exiled. Despite the family's apparent looting of public money, he was able to rebuild his political career at both the provincial and then federal level, after then-president Corazon Aquino, the wife of Benigno Aquino Jr., allowed the Marcos family to return in the early 1990s to face criminal consequence that didn't lead to significant punishment.
Rodrigo Duterte has been condemned by Western governments and human rights groups for a brutal anti-drugs crackdown while both mayor and president. It left more than 6,000 mostly poor suspects dead in large-scale killings that are being investigated by the International Criminal Court . Duterte withdrew the Philippines as a member of the ICC as a result.7 years agoCBC news senior correspondent Adrienne Arsenault reports from Manila on the horrors of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
But the relationship between the camps deteriorated. In addition to allegations of reckless spending in the education ministry, Marcos Jr. accused Rodrigo Duterte of striking a secret deal with China to avoid territorial conflicts in the South China Sea., without proof, and the president mentioned his predecessor's known use of fentanyl, stemming from a prescription following an accident.
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