A PHILIPPINE court ordered the arrest of Vice-President Sara Duterte on Friday over charges that she publicly threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr and two other people assassinated.

Ms Duterte had already already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges, as well as over alleged financial anomalies.

A conviction could derail her plans to seek the presidency in 2028, when President Marcos’s six-year term ends.

A lawyer of the vice-president, who has denied the charges, suggested she will post bail to avoid detention while facing trial by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.

“She has no intention of evading the law and will continue to exercise all her legal remedies,” Paul Lawrence Lim said in a statement.

The charges stem from a threat made by Ms Duterte in a 2024 online news conference to have President Marcos, his wife and then-House of Representatives Speaker Martin Romualdez killed by an assassin if she herself was killed, as their political disputes escalated.

She then warned her threat wasn’t a joke.

She later said she wasn’t threatening Mr Marcos but was expressing concern for her own safety. Her remarks set off a criminal investigation and national security concerns.