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Vice President Sara Duterte addresses the media at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on November 26, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

Vice President Sara Duterte addresses the media at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on November 26, 2024, regarding her remarks about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and Speaker Martin Romualdez. Duterte clarified that her comments, made during a virtual press conference, were not intended as threats but as expressions of concern for her safety.  The National Bureau of Investigation has issued and served a subpoena asking the vice president to appear at the NBI office and explain her tirades on Friday. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Katrina Domingo

ABS-CBN News

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/175085054768620241126-vpsd-presson-MT-3.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Vice President Sara Duterte addresses the media at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on November 26, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News"/>Vice President Sara Duterte addresses the media at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on November 26, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</div>SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Vice President Sara Duterte scoffed at the International Criminal Court’s prosecution panel for citing her government positions as one of the reasons why an interim release should not be granted to her father and former President Rodrigo Duterte, saying that her official post has no bearing in other countries. ICC prosecutors earlier argued that the Duterte patriarch should not be transferred to another country while on trial as his daughter is still the Philippines’ second-highest official and is an Army colonel in the reserve force. <div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/24/icc-prosecutor-opposes-duterte-s-request-for-interim-release-1649">ICC prosecutor opposes Duterte’s request for interim release</a></div>“We do not deny that I have a position in the government… My power and authority do not extend beyond the Philippines so kung saan man yung mga bansa na may interim release, wala tayong say,” Duterte said in a press conference here. “Hindi makikinig yung gobyerno doon sa Philippine Vice President,” she said. <div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/24/sara-duterte-calls-impeachment-case-scrap-of-paper-pleads-not-guilty-2321">Sara Duterte calls impeachment case &#x27;scrap of paper&#x27;, pleads not guilty</a></div>The Vice President also criticized ICC prosecutors for arguing that her father should not be temporarily released from detention over his family’s earlier pronouncements  that the Davaoeño leader has been kidnapped and forcibly hauled before the Hague-based tribunal.“Kung sinasabi nila na hindi ibibigay ang interim release dahil may statements ang pamilya… It doesn’t fall into the reason kung bakit hindi ibibigay ang interim release,” the younger Duterte said. “Dapat siguro ang pinagbabasihan lang ay ang actions at sinasabi ng akusado ay kung ano ang sinasabi ng country na he will be released to,” she said. In documents submitted to the ICC earlier this week, prosecutors noted that the former President has been vocal about reimplementing his controversial campaign against criminality and illegal drugs once he wins the mayoralty race in Davao City. In May, the former president returned as the local chief executive of Davao City via a landslide victory in the 2025 midterm elections. The Vice President said that she has not yet spoken to her father about the possibility of the ICC denying his request for interim release, but underscored that it will be “a big question” if the international tribunal turns down the 80-year old Duterte’s request. “Bakit ka pa naglagay diyan ng provision of interim release sa batas kung hindi mo din naman pala yan bibigay sa mga akusado na 80-years old na na kailangan ng caregiver,” she said. <div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/23/sara-duterte-pleads-impeachment-case-unconstitutional-1725">Sara Duterte pleads impeachment case unconstitutional</a></div>“Napakalaking question nun… More than that, yung tagal ba na naka detain siya nasa pre-trial pa lang is an injustice in itself,” she said. “Parang sinasabi nila na they are for human rights and justice pero hindi naman binibigay sa accused,” she said. The Philippines’ 16th President has been detained in the Hague since mid-March after he was arrested over charges of crimes against humanity linked to his administration’s war on drugs that killed thousands of suspected illegal drug users, including minors.The Duterte camp earlier said that it has been considering Australia as one of the countries that can host the former president should his request for interim release be granted.

Vice President Sara Duterte scoffed at the ICC’s prosecution panel for citing her government positions as one of the reasons why an interim release should not be granted to her father and former President Rodrigo Duterte, saying that her official post has no bearing in other countries.

Vice President Sara Duterte scoffed at the ICC’s prosecution panel for citing her government positions as one of the reasons why an interim release should not be granted to her father and former President Rodrigo Duterte, saying that her official post has no bearing in other countries.

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Sara Duterte says post as VP, Army reserve colonel irrelevant in dad Rodrigo’s interim release

Katrina Domingo,

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Published Jun 25, 2025 07:31 PM PHT

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