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Lopez transfer triggers fiery tirade from Duterte

(UPDATE) VICE President Sara Duterte's chief of staff was at the center of a test of wills between the vice president and the House of Representatives, which ordered Zuleika Lopez transferred to the Correctional Institution for Women from the Batasang Pambansa detention center.

The move triggered an angry response from the vice president, including a threat to have an assassin kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., first lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and Speaker Martin Romualdez if an alleged plot to kill her succeeded.

Vice President Sara Duterte. PHOTOS BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE