Acrimonious

 

In case you think American politics are acrimonious. The vice president of the Philippines, Sara Duterte, recently stated that if somebody kills her, a paid assassin will take out the president, his wife and the speaker of the (Filipino) House of Representatives?! Note also that Sara Duterte is the daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, otherwise known as "The Punisher"...

What´s going on here, I think, is that the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, was elected on an anti-American platform. The equally anti-American Sara Duterte was his (de facto) running mate. Once in office, however, Marcos became pro-American instead, leading to a permanent political crisis in the Philippines, since the president and the vice president now have completely different foreign policy orientations. 

Some time ago, Rodrigo Duterte threatened to create a breakaway republic on the island of Mindanao, and the drama has apparently not abated...   

Filipino vice president threatens to have the president assassinated