Sen. Cayetano slams Inquirer over a column about his citizenship.
CAYETANO SLAMS – Senator Alan Peter Cayetano reacted on a column article released by the Inquirer.net about his citizenship.
Recently, a video of Sen. Cayetano expressing his reaction to a column article published by Inquirer.net regarding his citizenship broke in. The said video was posted by YouTube channel Duterte Official.
Based on the video, Sen. Cayetano expressed that he never expected a prominent newspaper to post a “fake news” article. He mentioned the title of the article: Is Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano a PH citizen?
According to him, on the first reading, the article looks fair but if you will go further the content, you will see that it destroys an image. The Senator tagged it as “hatchet job” and “fake news”.
Sen. Cayetano cited that the first rule of journalism and due process is the gathering of the side of the person accused of something before the publication of an article.
According to him, he was not called and no email or text message has reached him. Nevertheless, he expressed that it is fine with him although there was no communication if it is “fair”.
“Pero una po, ipinalabas po that I am an American citizen… Let me state categorically, hindi po ako American citizen. Sabi din daw sa article, pinili ko daw, I chose to be an American citizen,” Sen. Cayetano said.
[First, it presented that I am an American citizen. Let me state categorically, I am not an American citizen. It is also said in the article, I chose it.]
According to Sen. Cayetano, he is a Filipino and it is his “only nationality”. In the video, the lawmaker shared the history of his nationality and emphasized that he never kept it and he even took it to the social media.
The Senator expressed that he was born to the late Sen. Renato Cayetano and an American woman who brought them up with the teaching of being sensitive to women and loving to small children as she was a teacher.
Furthermore, according to Sen. Cayetano, because his mother is an American, by both the Constitutions of the Philippines and the United States, he is “both an American and a Filipino” when he was born.
According to Sen. Cayetano, when he was in college, he asked permission from his father to run as a councilor. His father at first showed disagreement with his desire but later on agreed with him as long as he would pursue his studies and the law school.
Sen. Cayetano expressed that, later on, he took advice from his father because he wanted to renounce his US citizenship. He said that he told his father that it is in the Philippines wherein he wanted to reside, to study, and to work.
According to him, he was able to convince his father as he saw his “passion for public service.”
The Senator also expressed that he calls the article “malicious” as it stated that a charge has been filed against him before the COMELEC and that they did not know what happened with the case.
“Hindi po totoo yun, nanalo po tayo sa kaso na iyon. Nasa COMELEC po ang records. Isang tawag lang nila sa COMELEC they would have known that I won the case,” he said.
[That is not true, we won in that case. The records are at the COMELEC. Just one call to the COMELEC they would have known that I won the case.]
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