Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday said her murder threat against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was “maliciously taken out of logical context.” Duterte said this in an open letter when she questioned the pronouncement of the National Security Council (NSC) on Sunday that it considers all threats thrown at Marcos “serious and a matter of national security.

The widening rift between the two most powerful political families in the Philippines became public after the Southeast Asian nation's Vice President Sara Duterte said that she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated.

Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday if she is killed, she has contracted an assassin to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos and House of Representatives Speaker Martin Romualdez.