{"id":51260,"date":"2015-06-04T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51260"},"modified":"2015-06-04T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:34:43","slug":"poe-on-residency-issue-i-would-rather-have-the-issue-than-plunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/04\/poe-on-residency-issue-i-would-rather-have-the-issue-than-plunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe on residency issue: I would rather have the issue than plunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13718\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13718\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Grace Poe - Llamanzares. Photo from Poe's official Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grace-poe-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Grace Poe &#8211; Llamanzares. Photo from Poe&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 With Senator Grace Poe and Vice President Jejomar Binay eyed as the top contenders in the coming election\u2019s presidential bid, the two parties started to face issues thrown by each side.<\/p>\n<p>The Binay\u2019s went first when they claimed that Poe was unqualified to run for president or vice president as she did not meet the residency requirement of the said positions.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/04\/una-poe-unqualified-to-run-for-president-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNA: Poe unqualified to run for president, vice president<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To this, Poe quickly defended herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather have that issue than plunder or anything else to defend myself,\u201d she said in a television interview.<\/p>\n<p>Although Poe had not yet declared any interest in seeking higher office in the coming elections, she knew what qualities she needed to see in a running mate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportante na kumpyansa ang loob mo, pinagkakatiwalaan mo&#8230; Pero ang importante rin tignan mo &#8216;yung pagkatao. Magaling ba sa trabaho? Masipag ba? Wala bang kaso na plunder?\u201d she said in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s important that you\u2019re at peace, you trust\u2026 But it\u2019s also important to look at the person\u2019s character. Does he\/she do well in his job? Does he\/she work hard? Does he\/she have any plunder case?)<\/p>\n<p>Poe then mentioned corruption allegations against Binay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Makati City Parking Building is about P2.3 billion total cost&#8230; P800 million lang dapat itong building na ito. Ang layo po talaga ng kanilang ginastos,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>(The Makati City Parking Building is about P2.3 billion total cost&#8230; This building should have only cost P800 million only. What they have spent was really [too much].)<\/p>\n<p>Poe was one of the senators who filed a plunder case against the Binay\u2019s and his purported \u2018dummies.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 With Senator Grace Poe and Vice President Jejomar Binay eyed as the top contenders in the coming election\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}