SENATOR Francis “Chiz” Escudero has expressed hopes that the Supreme Court (SC) would have the same position it had on a disqualification case filed against then-presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. or FPJ in 2004, this time on a similar case involving FPJ’s daughter, Sen. Grace Poe, an independent presidential candidate in the 2016 elections.

Sen. Poe is facing three disqualification cases before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and one before the Senate Electoral Tribunal on grounds that she is not a natural-born citizen and that she lacks the 10-year residency requirement.

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