Philippine V-P Sara Duterte posts bail over ‘grave threats’ against Marcos

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Sept 5, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over her alleged death threat against the country’s president.
Duterte was charged in August with “grave threats” stemming from a late-night news briefing in which she claimed to have hired a hitman to kill President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a congressman cousin should she be cut down first.
She later said the comments had been misconstrued.
The alleged assassination threat also forms a crucial element of her ongoing Senate impeachment trial, where a guilty verdict would see her removed from office and permanently banned from politics.
“The Vice-President voluntarily appeared before the court that issued the warrant, so there was no need for her to be arrested,” her lawyer Lawrence Lim said.