THE country was recently shaken by a dramatic and controversial press conference involving Vice President Sara Duterte, which occurred at the House of Representatives' detention facility where her chief of staff, lawyer Zuleika Lopez, was being held.

During the online press conference, broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, Duterte unleashed a profanity-laden tirade that shocked Filipinos. She directed explicit threats and vulgar language toward two high-ranking government officials and the president's wife: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, first lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and House Speaker Martin Romualdez.

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