Reyes DQ’d
Manila, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified Regina Reyes, daughter of Marinduque Governor Carmencita Reyes, from running as congresswoman in next month’s midterm elections.Reyes is running as representative of the lone congressional district in Marinduque. In its 13-page decision, the Comelec First Division ruled that Reyes is not eligible to run for public office in the province for being an American citizen.
The ineligible candidate was declared as such also for her failure to meet the one-year residency requirement for candidates.
“Thus, a Filipino citizen who becomes naturalized elsewhere effectively abandons his domicile of origin,“ the Comelec said in a resolution signed by Commissioners Lucenito Tagle and Christian Robert Lim of the First Division. (Raymund F. Antonio)
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