Senator Grace Poe said raising eligibility issues against her smacked of desperation on the part of Vice President Jejomar Binay’s camp, thus making her consider seeking the post in Malacañang more seriously. She made the comment after answering allegations that she is disqualified from running for president or vice president in 2016 because she will not meet the 10-year minimum residency requirement set by the Philippine Constitution. Contrary to what she indicated in the certificate of candidacy in the 2013 senatorial polls, Poe said she had returned to the Philippines and had been residing here since January 2005. Poe has been catching up with Binay in voter preference surveys, the latest of which shows that the Vice President only has a slim lead over the neophyte senator.
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