Political Law, 2012 Bar — Question 13

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Margarita was born in 1986 to a Filipino mother and Swedish father. She has been living and continues to live in the US for the last 20 years and has also been naturalized as a US citizen. She recently reacquired Philippine citizenship under RA 9225, the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003. Can Margarita vote in the next national elections? (A) Yes. Dual citizens who are not residents may register under the Overseas Absentee Voting Law. (B) Yes. Margarita is a Filipino citizen and thus may enjoy the right to suffrage like everyone else without registering as an overseas absentee voter. (C) No. Margarita fails the residency requirement under Section 1, Article V of the Constitution for Filipinos. (D) No. Dual citizens upon renunciation of their Filipino citizenship and acquisition of foreign citizenship, have practically and legally abandoned their domicile and severed their legal ties to their homeland as a consequence.

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