VP Sara Duterte to attend preliminary investigation for grave threats, sedition charges

Vice President Sara Duterte confirmed receiving a summon from the Office of the Prosecutor for grave threats and inciting to sedition charges filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

She will appear at the Department of Justice's preliminary investigation, scheduled for May 9 and May 16, to take an oath.

The charges stem from her November 2024 remarks about hiring someone to kill President Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were to be killed, which she maintains were not threats but highlights of alleged threats to her security.

Duterte had previously skipped all of the NBI's invitations to speak, believing the Marcos administration had predetermined the filing of the complaints.

The Vice President had also cast skepticism on the fairness of the NBI investigation, stressing how the President had declared that he would not allow criminal acts to go unpunished.

These developments on her criminal complaints add to her legal challenges this year, which include her impeachment trial and possible arrest orders from the International Criminal Court (ICC).