{"id":67236,"date":"2015-12-13T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67236"},"modified":"2015-12-13T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:45:54","slug":"poe-natural-born-filipino-says-high-profile-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/13\/poe-natural-born-filipino-says-high-profile-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe is a natural born Filipino, says high-profile lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Grace Poe – Llamanzares.
(Photo from Poe’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u2014Under the principle of international law, Sen. Grace Poe is considered a natural born Filipino, said Katrina Legarda, a high-profile lawyer and professor of law at the University of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

“A long-standing presumption and principle of customary international law is that a foundling takes the nationality of the place where she was found,” Legarda was quoted as saying in a Rappler report.<\/p>\n

Poe is the adopted daughter of movie stars Fernando Poe Jr. and Susan Roces. She was found by the couple in Iloilo.<\/p>\n

“The presumption is Sen. Poe and all foundlings are natural born citizens, born to mothers who are Filipino because it defies imagination that a foreign woman, pregnant, will go to Iloilo or goes to our country to give birth,” Legarda was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n

Legarda also stressed that whoever denies Poe’s status as a natural born Filipino must prove that the senator’s mother is a foreigner and not a Filipino.<\/p>\n

The Commission on Election (Comelec) First Division has recently disqualified Poe due her failure to meet the 10-year residency requirement for a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

Poe said that she will appeal the poll body’s ruling before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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