The Standard - 2016 March 9 - Wednesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 28 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 wedNeSday : MaRCH 9, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Aquino buddy gets top DFA post

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hIgh court: Poe quAlIFIeD to ruN

By Rey E. Requejo and Macon Ramos-araneta

VOTING 9-6, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Senator Grace Poe as a qualified candidate for president in the May 9 elections, reversing the decision of the Commission on Elections to cancel her Certificate of Candidacy over questions about her citizenship and residency. The Court’s decision to uphold Poe’s status as a natural-born citizen and to affirm that she satisfied the 10-year residency requirement to run for president frees the senator to concentrate on her campaign with 60 days until the elections. “The Court, voting 9-6, granted the consolidated petitions for certiorari [of Senator Poe], finding that the Comelec gravely abused its discretion in rendering its assailed resolutions,” Court spokesman Theodore Te said in a press conference. The nine justices who voted to grant Poe’s petitions against the Comelec ruling were Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, and Associate Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr., Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Jose Perez, Jose Mendoza, Marvic Leonen, Francis Jardeleza and Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa. Those who voted to disqualify Poe were Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Teresita LeonardoDe Castro, Arturo Brion, Mariano del Castillo, Bienvenido Reyes and Estela Perlas-Bernabe. Although Brion was on leave, he left his vote to deny Poe’s petitions. Poe said she cried when she heard the news on the radio, while she was on her way to Liwasang Bonifacio for a celebration of International Women’s Day. The news broke just as her car stopped in front of Next page Quiapo Church.

‘It’s PNoy’s duty to campaign for bets’

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Teary-eyed. Presidential candidate Grace Poe joins the crowd celebrating International Women’s Day in Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila on Tuesday after learning of the favorable decision. Lino SanToS

Tribunal orders Comelec to give printed receipts the transparency and integrity of the May 9 elections. THE Supreme Court on Tuesday Voting 14-0, the Court en ordered the Commission on Elec- banc granted the petition filed by tions to activate the vote verifica- former senator Richard Gordon tion feature of the vote counting seeking to compel the Comelec machines in compliance with the to enable the feature in the vote Automated Election Law to ensure counting machines to give voters a

By Rey E. Requejo

printed receipt as required by law. Court spokesman Theodore Te made the announcement after the magistrates resolved the Gordon petition during an en banc session. Te said Associate Justice Arturo Brion was unable to participate because he was on leave.

In his petition for mandamus, Gordon, who is also running for the Senate in this year’s elections said the poll body should implement Section 7 (e) of the Automated Election Law, which states that the Voter Verification Paper Audit Next page


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