{"id":69877,"date":"2016-02-01T02:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69877"},"modified":"2016-02-01T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T07:51:38","slug":"favorable-sc-decision-will-certain-help-poes-candidacy-osmena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/01\/favorable-sc-decision-will-certain-help-poes-candidacy-osmena\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorable SC decision will certain help Poe\u2019s candidacy\u2013Osmena"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62933\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12107278_1041404102557470_3262960978681204706_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62933\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62933\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12107278_1041404102557470_3262960978681204706_n.jpg\" alt=\"Senators Grace Poe and Chiz Escudero filing their COCs. (Photo from Poe's official Facebook page)\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12107278_1041404102557470_3262960978681204706_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12107278_1041404102557470_3262960978681204706_n-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senators Grace Poe and Chiz Escudero filing their COCs. (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\" target=\"_blank\">Poe&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Senator Serge Osmena II on Monday said favorable Supreme Court (SC) decision on the disqualification case would propel independent presidential aspirant Grace Poe back on top of the survey standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt will definitely help because she is being accused now of having abandoned her country, but if the SC says no: she did not abandon her country, she is a really Filipina, then it will help her standing,\u201d Osmena said in a media interview.<\/p>\n<p>The SC is still deliberating Poe\u2019s petition to reverse the Commission on Election (Comelec)\u2019s decision favoring the petitioners\u2019 claim that the 2013 polls\u2019 No. 1 senator, as a foundling, is not a Filipino citizen and had not met 10-year residency requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Osmena said it is important for the SC to make the final decision before the May 9 polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAs the election day gets closer and the SC will not have made the decision, then the voters will say, I will gonna vote anyway and let the SC reject my judgment on who should be the president,\u201d Osmena explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf she wins and there is no SC decision yet, I believe the SC will say that the people have spoken,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>If the SC will decide to disqualify Poe, Osmena said half of those support the lady senator will vote for Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf you remove Grace from the race, Duterte pops up more than Vice President (Jejomar) Binay and Secretary (Mar) Roxas,\u201d Osmena said.<\/p>\n<p>Osemana is seeking reelection as independent candidate but was adopted by the ruling Liberal Party (LP) in its senatorial ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Senator Serge Osmena II on Monday said favorable Supreme Court (SC) decision on the disqualification case would propel independent presidential &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-69877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69877","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=69877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}