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However, Did Not Result in The Loss of His Philippine Citizenship, As He Did Not Renounce
However, Did Not Result in The Loss of His Philippine Citizenship, As He Did Not Renounce
Manzano vs COMELEC
Arnado applied for repatriation under Republic Did not applied for repatriation as he did not
Act (R.A.) No. 9225 before the Consulate
lost his Philippine Citizenship
General of the Philippines in San Franciso,
USA and took the Oath of Allegiance to the
Republic of the Philippines on 10 July
2008.4 On the same day an Order of Approval
of his Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition
was issued in his favor
Both ran for public office
Arnado voluntarily and effectively reverted
Did not do any act to revert his earlier status as
to his earlier status as a dual citizen by using a dual citizen.
a US passport after renouncing ones foreign
citizenship
Dual Allegiance
Dual Citizenship
By the time he filed his certificate of candidacy By declaring in his certificate of candidacy that
on 30 November 2009, Arnado was a dual
he is a Filipino citizen; that he is not a
citizen enjoying the rights and privileges of
permanent resident or immigrant of another
Filipino and American citizenship. He was
country; that he will defend and support the
qualified to vote, but by the express
Constitution of the Philippines and bear true
disqualification under Section 40(d) of the
faith and allegiance thereto and that he does so
Local Government Code, he was not qualified without mental reservation, private respondent
to run for a local elective position.
has, as far as the laws of this country are
concerned, effectively repudiated his American
In effect, Arnado was solely and exclusively a citizenship and anything which he may have
said before as a dual citizen.
Filipino citizen only for a period of eleven
days, or from 3 April 2009 until 14 April 2009,
on which date he first used his American
There being no disqualifications, he is
passport after renouncing his American
qualified to run for elective position.
citizenship.
what the law prohibits is dual allegiance and not dual citizenship.