Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo, who was tasked to write the draft decision on a disqualification case against Sen. Grace Poe, believes that the latter should be disqualified from joining the presidential race because she failed the residency requirement.

According to unimpeachable sources, del Castillo’s 70-page draft ponencia had been circulated among the 14 justices of the High Court.

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