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Chiz links lawyer in Poe case to Roxas
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‘blame youRself’ I didn’t file your CoC, Mar tells Poe By John Paolo Bencito
ADMINISTRATION standard bearer Manuel Roxas II insisted Thursday that Senator Grace Poe had nobody but herself to blame for her misfortunes, and denied having a hand in an alleged conspiracy to take her out of the presidential race. “Wasn’t it her lawyer who filed her papers? Is she the one who took oath as an American citizen? It’s her responsibility to explain herself there. I’m not the one to blame here,” Roxas said in a radio interview in Cebu. Roxas, who repeatedly tried to convince Poe to be his running mate earlier this year, insinuated last week that she was not a natural-born Filipino citizen, after Poe blamed Roxas, a former Transportation secretary, for the problems hounding Metro Manila’s commuter train system. Next page
After Grace, poll agency to decide on Duterte bid By christine F. Herrera PRESIDENTIAL candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is next on the agenda of the Commission on Elections, which will decide whether or not he should be disqualified, the poll body’s spokesman said Thursday. At the “Know Your Candidate Forum” at the Aloha Hotel, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said that like presidential bet Senator Grace Poe, Duterte also had a pending disqualification case against him. “Until the disqualification issues are categorically resolved, the names of Duterte and Grace Poe on the official list of presidential candidates hang in the balance,” Jimenez told the forum. Next page
Question hour. Presidential candidate Grace Poe reacts to a reporter’s question during a press conference at the Senate on Thursday. Ey AcAsio