The National Security Council is the government body formed to advise the President "on matters of national defense and shall make recommendations on such other subjects as the President may from time to time submit for study and consideration.

MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has removed Vice President Sara Duterte from the National Security Council (NSC), further diminishing, if not totally eclipsing, her role in his administration following a bitter rift between the two former allies.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte will no longer sit on the National Security Council after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed an order removing her office from the agency, following a bitter split between the two former allies last year.