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.



He delivered the comments after Duterte emerged from the courthouse holding a court order confirming she had posted a cash bond totalling 360,000 pesos.