Philippine presidential candidate Grace Poe waves to the crowd as she leaves after attending the International Women's Day rally by Gabriela Party List women's group in Manila March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Czar Dancel
MANILA: The Philippines’ Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday for leading presidential candidate Grace Poe to run in May elections, removing a major obstacle in her bid to become the country’s third female leader.
The court rejected a December ruling by the election commission that Poe, the adopted daughter of movie star parents, should be disqualified on the grounds she was not a “natural born” Filipino and she had not lived in the Philippines long enough.
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