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Letters to the Editor

On Poe DQ case

The Philippine Star

Grace Poe’s disqualification case is one of “law” versus justice.

The principle of “jus sanguinis” upholds that a resident of the country is a Filipino who is Filipino by blood, while those born in the Philippines to non-Filipino parents are automatically granted Filipino citizenship by virtue of “jus soli” rule.

But who is more Filipino?

The Commission on Elections should be the one disqualified. With their decision to prevent the foundling Senator Poe, a Filipino, from running as president in the forthcoming national elections (on foolish grounds), oh, let us pity ourselves, Filipinos!

Dictionary defines foundling as “an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.”

You tell me, what law can be greater than that which is being impelled and whipped up by the “still small voice” from within the deepest recesses of a human heart? – RENI VALENZUELA, Quezon City

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