Sara Duterte has been impeached on various charges, including a threat to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

As the Philippines geared up for mid-term elections in May, social media users shared an edited video to falsely claim the audience at a rally of candidates backed by President Ferdinand Marcos in February chanted the name of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. promised to end his predecessor's brutal drug war. That promise, like many others, was hollow. The post In the Philippines, Marcos Hasn't Ended Duterte's Brutal Drug War appeared first on World Politics Review.

Duterte made the remark on Thursday when he introduced senators he was campaigning for in the May midterm polls. Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III, chief of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group,

At a political rally last week, Rodrigo Duterte joked about killing 15 senators with a bomb so to free up positions for his own party’s candidates.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to nullify the impeachment complaint against her, as the embattled politician challenges efforts to oust her.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is facing a criminal complaint Monday over comments he made during a campaign rally when he said 15 senators should be killed in a bombing to allow more vacant seats for his own party's candidates to fill.

The Marcos and Duterte families dominate politics in the Philippines, and elections in the country can be as much a battle of personalities and factional interests as of policy.

The complaint, filed by police Major General Nicolas Torre III, alleges that Duterte’s remarks, made to fill vacant Senate seats for his party, could incite violence.

Police in the Philippines have filed criminal complaints against former President Rodrigo Duterte after he said during a campaign rally that 15 senators should be killed in a bomb attack so there will be more vacant seats for his political party’s

Sara Duterte has been impeached on various charges, including a threat to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

President Marcos will continue to “clean up the mess” left behind by his predecessor which led to the inclusion of the Philippines on a watch list of nations with poor countermeasures against the flow of dirty money before the country was delisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) last week,