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    This document summarizes a case digest for G.R. No. 135083: Mercado v Manzano. The case involved a challenge to Eduardo Barrios Manzano's eligibility for the position of vice-mayor of Makati City due to his dual citizenship in the Philippines and United States. The Supreme Court ruled that Manzano was eligible for the position as he had renounced his US citizenship by registering as a voter in the Philippines upon reaching adulthood and exercising his right to vote in elections. The Court held that under both Philippine and American law, Manzano only maintained Filipino citizenship.

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    This document summarizes a case digest for G.R. No. 135083: Mercado v Manzano. The case involved a challenge to Eduardo Barrios Manzano's eligibility for the position of vice-mayor of Makati City due to his dual citizenship in the Philippines and United States. The Supreme Court ruled that Manzano was eligible for the position as he had renounced his US citizenship by registering as a voter in the Philippines upon reaching adulthood and exercising his right to vote in elections. The Court held that under both Philippine and American law, Manzano only maintained Filipino citizenship.

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    G.R. No. 135083


    May 26, 1999
    ERNESTO S. MERCADO, PETITIONER, VS. EDUARDO BARRIOS
    MANZANO AND THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS,
    RESPONDENTS.

    FACTS: The petitioner, Eduardo Barrios Manzano, was born in the United States, San Francisco,
    California on September 14, 1955 to a Filipino father and mother. He was granted a dual citizenship
    upon his birth due to jus solis of US laws and jus sanguinis of the Philippine laws. By the age of six
    years old, he arrived in the Philippines using an American passport and was later registered as an
    alien and upon reaching the age of majority, he registered as a voter and exercised his right to vote
    three times clearly and officially renunciating his American citizenship applicable to both laws.

    Consequently, he became a winning candidate for vice mayor of the City of Makati in the May 11,
    1998 elections however, prior to its announcement, respondent filed a petition of disqualification
    against Manzano.

    ISSUE: W/N Eduardo Barrios Manzano is eligible for the office he seeks to be elected while
    withholding the fact that he may have a dual citizenship with the Philippines and the United States
    of America.

    RULING: Eduardo Barrios Manzano is eligible for the position of vice-mayor of Makati City in the
    May 11, 1998, elections.

    HELD: Manzano only have Filipino as his citizenship as noting by the indisputable fact that
    he registered as a voter upon reaching the age of majority and exercised his right to suffrage in
    1992, 1995 and 1998 thereby renunciating his US Citizenship under the American Law. Likewise,
    under the Philippine Law, he no longer has U.S. Citizenship.

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