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.

Sara Duterte accused Bongbong Marcos of incompetence and said she has contracted an assassin to kill him if she herself is killed.

The president’s security has been boosted after his deputy’s ‘active threat’ that were ‘made so brazenly in public’.

The ‘active threat’ has been referred to the Presidential Security Command for ‘immediate proper action’ following her warning.

Vice President Sara Duterte clarified on Saturday that her statement that she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Speaker Martin Romualdez, and First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos assassinated if she were killed was not a threat.

The assassination threat came after the House of Representatives decided to detain VP Sara Duterte’s Chief of Staff Zuleika Lopez.

Security protocols in the Philippines have been stepped up after vice president Sara Duterte vowed to have the president assassinated if she herself were killed. The daughter of the country's previous president Rodrigo Duterte,

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting Marcos' office to vow "immediate proper action".

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself was killed, amid a growing rift between the two most powerful political families in the country.