{"id":61136,"date":"2015-09-11T02:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61136"},"modified":"2015-09-11T02:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:07:36","slug":"poe-to-resolve-citizenship-issue-at-set-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/11\/poe-to-resolve-citizenship-issue-at-set-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe to resolve citizenship issue at SET hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51239\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grace-poe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51239\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grace-poe-2.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grace-poe-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grace-poe-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grace-poe-2-900x587.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Grace Poe (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) scheduled its preliminary hearing on a disqualification case at 10 a.m. on Friday \u2013 Senator Grace Poe, respondent, and former senatorial candidate Rizalito David, petitioner, were expected to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Soto III confirmed Poe and David\u2019s attendance, with the latter questioning the lady senator\u2019s citizenship and eligibility for an elective post.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was in favor of the neophyte senator, Soto disclosed that he was yet to decide what action to take as a member of the SET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still contemplating on what to do. I will decide on what to do after we hear the presentations tomorrow,\u201d he said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, for her part, had repeatedly reiterated already withdrawing her American citizenship years ago, making her eligible for public office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on facts, documentary evidence and pertinent laws and jurisprudence, she is a natural-born citizen and her residence or length of stay in the country is more than sufficient when she ran and won as a senator,\u201d her legal argument read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) scheduled its preliminary hearing on a disqualification case at 10 a.m. on Friday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,4377],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-public-probe","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61136","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=61136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}