FULL TEXT: Why Comelec division cancelled Grace Poe’s candidacy

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FULL TEXT: Why Comelec division cancelled Grace Poe’s candidacy
The poll body's 2nd division rules in favor of petitioner Estrella Elamparo, who says the senator did not meet the residency requirements for presidential bets

DISQUALIFIED? Senator Grace Poe at the Supreme Court to attend the preliminary hearing of the Senate Electoral Tribunal on her Citizenship Issue on September 11, 2015. File photo

MANILA, Philippines – It is the first step in what will likely be a long legal battle for presidential preference survey front runner Grace Poe. 

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division granted the petition of Estrella Elamparo, which sought to cancel Poe’s Certificate of Candidacy because the senator supposedly did not meet the residency requirements for presidential bets. 

Poe’s camp will “exhaust all legal remedies,” spokesman Rex Gatchalian told media in a press conference Tuesday night, December 1. 

Why did the 2nd division, composed of 3 commissioners, decide to rule in favor of Elamparo? Read the resolution in full here:

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