Duterte fires vice president from anti-drug post after offer

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Duterte fires vice president from anti-drug post after offer

Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo removed from lead role in Duterte's anti-drug war weeks after her appointment.


Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo has openly criticised the president's anti-drug campaign [File: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fired Vice President and arch-critic Leni Robredo from her post as the head of his deadly drug war on Sunday, an aide said, just days after calling her a "scatterbrain" not to be trusted with state secrets.

Robredo, 54, lasted less than three weeks steering Duterte's signature anti-narcotics campaign, which she promised to reform amid allegations police were committing crimes against humanity in killing thousands of drug suspects.

"The vice president resorted to unduly baiting international attention on the matter," Duterte spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a statement announcing Robredo's immediate dismissal.

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