The complaint stemmed from Duterte's remarks made in an online press conference last year, where she said she ordered someone to "kill" Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez should harm come to her.

MANILA (Reuters) -- The Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation has recommended filing criminal charges against Vice President Sara Duterte over an alleged threat to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and others, the agency's head said on Wednesday.

Senate President Chiz Escudero says the National Bureau of Investigation's filing of criminal cases against Vice President Sara Duterte will not affect the impeachment proceedings to be done by the Senate.

Vice President Sara Duterte is seemingly not surprised by the criminal cases recommended for filing against her by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Duterte made the pronouncement shortly after the NBI bared that it has recommended the charging Vice President Sara Duterte with inciting to sedition and grave threat.