Stressing that the weight of the law, evìdence and the jurisprudence on the matter of natural born and residency are clearly on the side of leading presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe, a broad based coalition of her supporters here and overseas denounced the decisions of the Comelec en banc quashing her presidential bid.
In a statement, Ang Grasya ng Masang Pilipino Movement (Grasya) spokesman Jose Samson denounced the Comelec en banc decision branding it as a “travesty of truth, justice and fair play.”
Samson, a law professor, cited three failures by Comelec in deciding against Grace Poe’s candidacy:
1) The commissioners concerned knew that there was legal, historical, practical basis for the claim that foundlings as a rule are natural born citizens of the state they are found or born in;
2) that their decision not to recognize and apply such knowledge and information unto the case of Grace is a blatant act of injustice against foundlings and all who are powerless and innocent;
3) that the doubt created by the “unique circumstances” attendant to the case of Grace must—by all standards of what are fair and just in a civilized society—benefit the innocent and powerless foundling or at the very least must not be used to deny the sovereign citizens the proper exercise of their sovereign act of choosing servant leader.
“Such decision by the Comelec commissioners concerned and all likened to Nikko’s three monkey who see, speak nor hear no evil, is at best guilty of bad faith with their acts considered criminal by the greater majority of the Filipinos,” Samson said.
He added, “we look forward to the Supreme Court upholding the cause of Senator Poe and the cause of the sovereign people, consistent with the democratic precept that favors inclusion rather than exclusion.”
“The last bastion of democracy that is Supreme Court can but favor the right of the people to elect the servant leaders of their choice and that doubts as well as the resort to technicalities as done by the Comelec can not serve to defeat the exercise of popular sovereignty of citizens,” Samson said.
