HOUSE Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said Tuesday the disqualification cases filed against Senator Grace Poe, who is running for President in May 2016, may not be as damaging to her as her opponents think those are.
But those cases may not be helping Poe either, he said.
“[Those cases are] not helping Grace any but, on the other hand, I don’t know whether [those are] as damaging to her as much as some people think,” Belmonte told reporters.
He said some of the cases were filed by prominent people like former Senator Francisco Tatad and Dean Amado Valdez of the University of the East College of Law, but their motives were suspect.
He said those cases showed “the position is important.”
“I don’t think if she was running for a lower position, anybody would bother [to file a case against her],” Belmonte said.