{"id":58347,"date":"2015-08-07T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58347"},"modified":"2025-01-31T02:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:08:32","slug":"grace-poe-i-am-a-filipino-by-birth-abode-and-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/07\/grace-poe-i-am-a-filipino-by-birth-abode-and-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Poe: \u2018I am a Filipino by birth, abode and choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Grace Poe (Photo from Poe’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 After a disqualification case challenging her citizenship and residency was filed on Thursday, Senator Grace Poe reiterated that she was a Filipino by birth, abode and choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis petition . . . is seeking to unseat respondent Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares from the Senate . . . [because her] noncitizenship and nonresidence are grounds of ineligibility for a member of the Senate, thus, a member can be disqualified to continue as senator on these grounds,\u201d the petition read.<\/p>\n

The case was filed by Ang Kapatiran (The Brotherhood) party member Rizalito David before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET). David lost in the 2013 senatorial race.<\/p>\n

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Poe, who topped the 2013 senatorial race and led the 2016 presidential preferences polls, was not at all threatened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an opportunity for the truth to come out and for this issue to be resolved once and for all,\u201d Poe said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report, seeing the case as her chance to clear all doubts regarding her citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a Filipino by birth, abode and choice,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Ang Kapatiran, for its part, clarified that the disqualification case was not backed by the party but was filed by David alone. It also noted that the political party did not have members who handled citizenship and residency issues.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe case is not a party position\u2026 It\u2019s better the citizenship issue be raised by the nemeses of Poe after she files her candidacy,\u201d Ang Kapatiran president Norman Cabrera said in the same report.<\/p>\n

Presenting the petition alone, David was asked for his motives. He then asserted that he had \u2018noble\u2019 intentions and few supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to emphasize that my party has nothing to do with my petition\u2026 I feel they have an orchestrated response against my petition while I am alone, with no lawyer, in this fight for truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

David also pointed out that Poe should not have served as the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) head in 2010 as she still had US citizenship at that time; and the law clearly stated that government officials should be Filipino citizens.<\/p>\n

Not having enough financial resources to pay for the P50,000 filing fee, David admitted that it was funded by \u2018plenty of friends in the private sector.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 He refused, however, to name his financial providers.<\/p>\n

Openly questioning Poe\u2019s citizenship and residency, Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay was believed\u00a0to have funded David\u2019s disqualification case. Binay, however, denied having any involvement in the said case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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