Senior citizens are thanking Sen. Grace Poe for filing a resolution seeking a Senate inquiry into violations of rights of the elderly under the Senior Citizens Law, or Republic Act (RA) 9994, according to an advocate of senior citizens’ rights.

“We, the senior citizens, have been looking for someone to take the cudgels for us in Congress because there are hundreds of establishments [that] wittingly or unwittingly violate provisions of the law or whose personnel are not properly oriented to comply with rules and regulations” of RA 9994, Romulo Macalintal, also an election lawyer, said in a statement on Thursday.

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