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Carpio calls Poe decision a mockery of elections, will mislead voters to elect a nuisance candidate

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<ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Supreme Court justice maintains dissent on high tribunal’s decision favoring Grace Poe</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">He says Poe cannot be a natural-born citizen due to her foundling status and American citizenship</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">He also says the decision mocks the elections, calls Poe a patently ineligible nuisance candidate</li> </ul>MANILA, Philippines – A patently ineligible nuisance candidate. Maintaining his dissent on the Supreme Court decision upholding Sen. Grace Poe’s candidacy, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said the ruling makes a mockery of the elections by deceiving the electorate into voting for someone who is not obviously qualified to become a president under the law. Carpio, who pointed out that the Supreme Court never achieved a majority vote on Poe’s citizenship issue both as a foundling and as an American, said it was clear the decision mocks not only the elections but the very Constitution itself. “What is clear and undeniable is that there is no majority of this Court that holds that petitioner Mary Grace Natividad Poe Llamanzares is a natural-born Filipino citizen. This ruling of the majority will lead to absurd results, making a mockery of our national elections by allowing a presidential candidate with uncertain citizenship status to be potentially elected to the Office of the President, an office expressly reserved by the Constitution exclusively for natural-born Filipino citizens,” the <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/773260/allowing-poes-run-a-mockery-of-natl-elections-justice-carpio">Philippine Daily Inquirer</a> quoted him as saying. The election process becomes a complete mockery since the electorate is mercilessly offered choices which include patently ineligible candidates. The electorate is also needlessly misled to cast their votes, and thus waste their votes, for an ineligible candidate,” he added. “Any person, who is not a natural-born Filipino citizen, running for President is obviously a nuisance candidate under Section 69 of the Omnibus Election Code.” The justices voted 7-5-3 in favor of Poe. The seven who voted to uphold Poe’s status as a natural-born Filipino were Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr., Lucas Bersamin, Jose Perez, Jose Mendoza, Marvic Leonen and Francis Jardeleza. The five who voted against were Carpio, Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Arturo Brion, Estela Perlas-Bernabe and Bienvenido Reys. The three who voted not to rule on the issue were Diosdado Peralta, Benjamin Caguioa, and Mariano Del Castillo. Not Intended by the Constitution Aside from Poe’s foundling issue, Carpio also pointed to her acquisition of American citizenship as a stumbling block to her presidential run. According to the justice, Poe’s act of renouncing her American citizenship under RA 9225 was already an act of naturalization itself. He pointed out allowing a naturalized citizen to become commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces was anomalous and could not have been intended by the makers of the Constitution. “Otherwise, a natural-born Filipino citizen who has absolutely renounced and abjured allegiance to the Philippines and pledged sole allegiance to the United States, undertaking to bear arms against any foreign country, including the Philippines, when required by U.S. law, could still become the Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines by performing a simple act – taking an oath of allegiance before a Philippine public official – to reacquire natural-born Philippine citizenship. The framers of the Constitution, and the Filipino people who ratified the Constitution, could not have intended such an anomalous situation,” he said. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://kickerdaily.com/carpio-calls-poe-decision-a-mockery-of-elections-will-mislead-voters-to-elect-a-nuisance-candidate/">Kicker Daily News</a>

Supreme Court justice maintains dissent on high tribunal’s decision favoring Grace Poe He says Poe cannot be a natural-born citizen due to h...

Carpio: Not 9, but only 7 magistrates believe Poe is a natural-born Filipino

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<ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio clashed over the court’s decision on Grace Poe’s disqualification case</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Carpio claimed only 7, not 9, believed Poe is a natural-born Filipino and qualified to run as president</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Sereno insisted there was a “clear majority of seven” since only 12 magistrates participated in making the decision</li> </ul>MANILA, Philippines – Two justices of the Supreme Court have collided over its recent decision that allowed Senator Grace Poe to run for president in the coming May election. Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio gave separate opinions on the votes of the Supreme Court en banc last week which sided with Poe’s petition to quash Comelec’s twin ruling canceling her certificate of candidacy (COC) for lack of constitutional requirements. Carpio questioned the alleged lack of majority in the voting where only seven magistrates, and not nine as earlier reported, believed Poe is eligible to run for president. “What is clear and undeniable is that there is no majority of this Court that holds that petitioner Mary Grace Natividad S. Poe Llamanzares is a natural-born Filipino citizen,” Carpio said in his dissenting opinion. Carpio, one of the most senior justices in the SC and a member of the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) that earlier ruled Poe as not qualified, explained that only seven justices deemed that Poe is a natural-born Filipino, while five believed otherwise. The three remaining justices had no opinion on Poe’s case, Carpio revealed. The SC earlier announced that the magistrates voted 9-6 in favor of Poe’s petition, which is a clear majority since the high court has 15 members. But Carpio maintained seven votes is not a majority, which should be eight, as per rules of the court. A clear majority However, Sereno insisted that “a clear majority of seven’ voted in favor of Grace Poe’s petition. The Chief Justice cited Rule 12, Section 1 of the Internal Rules of the SC which states that all decisions and actions in court en banc cases “shall be made up upon the concurrence of the majority of the Members of the Court who actually took part in the deliberation on the issues or issues involved and voted on them.” Invoking this rule Sereno said there is a “clear majority of 7” who granted Poe’s petition since only 12 justices participated in making the decision. “These votes, as explained in the extended opinions submitted by the members of the majority, must be respected. Granting therefore that we need to address the question of substantive qualifications of petitioner (Poe), she clearly possesses the qualifications for presidency on the matter of residency and citizenship,” <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/558753/news/nation/sereno-carpio-cross-swords-on-poe-dq-voting-results">GMA News</a> quoted Sereno as saying. On the issue of Poe’s residency, Sereno added that seven justices voted in favor of the senator out of 13 who took part. In the 47-page<a href="http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/pdf/web/viewer.html?file=/jurisprudence/2016/march2016/221697.pdf"> decision</a>, Sereno voted in favor of Poe’s petition along with Associate Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Jose Perez, Jose Mendoza, Marvic Leonen, Francis Jardeleza, and Benjamin Caguioa. On the other hand, Carpio was among the six dissenters along with Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo De Castro, Mariano del Castillo, Arturo Brion, Estela Perlas-Bernabe, and Bienvenido Reyes. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://kickerdaily.com/carpio-not-9-but-only-7-magistrates-believe-poe-is-a-natural-born-filipino/">Kicker Daily News</a>

Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio clashed over the court’s decision on Grace Poe’s disqualification case...

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