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Poe-Llamanzares vs. COMELEC [DISSENTING OPINION, CARPIO, J.]

[G.R. No. 221697] MARY GRACE NATIVIDAD S. POE-LLAMANZARES, Petitioner, -versus- COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND ESTRELLA C. ELAMPARO, Respondents, [G.R. Nos. 221698-700] MARY GRACE NATIVIDAD S. POE-LLAMANZARES, Petitioner, -versus- COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, FRANCISCO S. TATAD, ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS AND AMADO D. VALDEZ, Respondents Present: SERENO, C.J., CARPIO, VELASCO, JR., LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, BRION, PERALTA, BERSAMIN, DEL CASTILLO, PEREZ, MENDOZA, REYES, PERLAS-BERNABE, LEONEN, JARDELEZA, CAGUIOA, JJ.

G.R. No. 221697 and G.R. Nos. 221698-700 | 2016-03-08

DISSENTING OPINION

CARPIO, J.:

I dissent from the majority opinion.

With the ruling of the majority today, a presidential candidate who is deemed a natural-born Filipino citizen by less than a majority of this Court, deemed not a natural-born Filipino citizen by five Justices, and with no opinion from three Justices, can now run for President of the Philippines even after having been unanimously found by the Commission on Elections En Banc (COMELEC) to be not a natural-born Filipino citizen. What is clear and undeniable is that there is no majority of this Court that holds that petitioner Mary Grace Natividad S. Poe Llamanzares (petitioner)...