MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is being tried by an impeachment court on charges that include threatening the president, said Tuesday that she expected to be “bloodied but unbowed” by the public trial.Duterte, who has declared her aim to succeed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in mid-2028, was impeached by the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Marcos’ allies, in May. The 48-year-old lawyer and politician has dismissed the charges against her as political persecution.Her televised trial by the 24-member Senate, which acts as an impeachment court, started Monday.On Tuesday it took up the first of four main charges, which accused Duterte of threatening in an online news conference in November 2024 to have Marcos, his wife and then-House Speaker Martin Romualdez killed by an unidentified person if she herself were killed as their disputes escalated.
A video presented as evidence showed the vice president uttering the threat and stressing that she was not making a joke and that the person she asked to undertake the killings agreed to her plan.
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