Disqualification cases filed against Sen. Grace Poe have placed the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) in a quandary.

The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET), throwing out a complaint against Poe, also rejected claims that the senator is not a natural-born Filipino. The Commission on Elections (Comelec), however, disqualified the senator because the commission believes that she is not natural-born and failed to meet the residency requirement for presidential aspirants, having lived in the US for years.

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