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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