The recent assassination threat by Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte against the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the event of her own assassination has escalated the growing rift in the country's politics as the political alliance between the two families collapses.

Philippine authorities handed a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte’s office, inviting her to answer investigators’ questions after she publicly threatened to have the president assassinated if she were killed in an unspecified plot herself.