PHILIPPINES vice-president Sara Duterte said today that her lawyers were preparing for a legal battle in her forthcoming impeachment trial.

Ms Duterte was speaking for the first time since the House of Representatives impeached her on Wednesday on a raft of criminal charges, including plotting to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr assassinated, which she again denied. 

Mr Marcos was her running mate in the 2022 elections, but they have had a bitter falling-out.