Police file criminal complaints against Philippine Vice President Duterte, staff

​​​​​​​By Anadolu staff

ANKARA (AA) - Philippine police said Wednesday it filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly attacking authorities and disobeying orders in an altercation in the lower chamber of Congress and at a government hospital.

Quezon City police filed the complaints amid a separate looming legal action against the flamboyant Duterte who publicly threatened to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos and House Speaker Martin Romualdez if anything happened to her, according to the Manila Times report.

The complaints allege direct assault, disobedience and grave coercion during incidents in the lower chamber of Congress and at a government hospital, police said in a statement.

Duterte's office said it would respond to the complaint.

In a related development, presidential adviser Larry Gadon separately filed a petition Wednesday with the Supreme Court to stop the vice president’s bar license, citing her assassination threats against the president and others.

Duterte accused Romualdez, a cousin of Marcos, of wanting her dead, alleging he sees her as the "biggest threat" to his aspirations for the 2028 presidential election.

Marcos and Duterte ran as allies before the 2022 elections, giving the pair a six-year term.

The alliance has been upended in recent months, however, leading Duterte to resign from Marcos' Cabinet, where she held the education portfolio.​​​​​​​