Grace Poe

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Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares (baptized September 3, 1968, Tagalog: [po]) is a Filipina senator, businesswoman, educator, and philanthropist.

She served as chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) from 2010 to 2012 and was in the Philippine Senate since 2013. Poe earned a degree in science at the University of the Philippines but moved to Boston College in Massachusetts, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science and spent significant portions of her adult life in Fairfax, Virginia.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the incumbent's predecessor, ran for the Philippine presidency in 2004, but she was disqualified months later; he died months later.

Grace returned to the Philippines on April 8, 2005, after discovering that her father had died.

She began fighting for her father's rights over the election's results and ran against suspected electoral fraud. During the 2013 election as an independent associated with the Team PNOy coalition of Aquino, Poe ran for a seat in the Philippine Senate.

Loren Legarda, who previously won more votes than other candidates and over 20 million, won more than 20 million votes, ahead of Loren Legarda, who previously won two elections.

She ran for president in 2016.

Despite numerous attempts to disqualify her, the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared her a natural-born Filipino citizen and that she is eligible to serve as President based on her 10-year residence.

Poe came in third place in the presidential race.

Poe was reelected senator with over 22 million votes in May 2019.

Early life

Poe was discovered in Iloilo City by a woman in the city's main cathedral, Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral.

The infant was found "Grace" in the hope that her finding was by God's grace; she was christened by Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of Jaro, who would later become Archbishop of Manila. Despite the cathedral's announcement in the hopes that her biological mother would claim her, no one stepped forward.

The Militar family eventually took Poe, as did Sayong Militar's in-law Edgardo, who was a signatory on the child's discovery certificate, was identified as her potential father. Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Militar was given the name on her original Certificate of Live Birth. Sayong Militar said goodbye to Grace Ledesma Valencia, an unmarried, childless heiress of a sugar baron from Bacolod, Negros Occidental.

Valencia was also a friend of film actress Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces, who were newlyweds; Roces was an acquaintance of Roces and was the one who brought Grace aboard in trips between Bacolod and Manila. The Poes took Grace after Valencia decided that the baby would be better off with two parents in the Philippines rather than with her as a single parent in the United States, where she was going to live. Militar was initially suspicious of allowing Grace to be adopted by a Poe couple because she was unfamiliar with them, but Archbishop Sin convinced the couple to adopt her.

Poe was legally adopted by the actors Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces, and they gave her the nickname Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe. She stayed away from the sets of her films while growing up, including the daughter of Paz's character in Dugo ng Bayan, and as a street child. Poe did not enter show business in the first place.

Education

Poe began attending elementary school at Saint Paul College of Pasig and Saint Paul College in Makati in 1975. Poe attended Assumption College San Lorenzo in 1982, where he began attending high school. Poe attended the University of the Philippines (UP), where she concentrated on developmental studies after high school. She enrolled in Boston College, where she earned a degree in political science in 1991. When she was in high school, she interned for William Weld's campaign.

Personal life

In 1995, Poe began working as a preschool teacher at a local Montessori education-style school. She left her career as a teacher to work as a procurement liaison officer at the United States Geological Survey in 1998. She was elected vice president and treasurer of her father's film production firm, FPJ Productions, in 2005, and she was charged with the company's archive of more than 200 films.

Poe is a huge reader, and she has read books from a number of genres and authors. She has read all of David Baldacci's books, including her favorite author, but she has also read books from a variety of genres and authors. She is also a film buff, watching all kinds of films, but with a particular obsession for adventure films, conspiracy films, movies starring her father, and movies with happy endings. Poe is a tennis player with a black belt in taekwondo, having participated in tournaments while in high school.

Poe is a natural-born Filipino. Poe obtained U.S. citizenship by naturalization on October 18, 2001. She regained her Philippine citizenship, and she renounced her American citizenship in October 2010, as per Republic Act 9225. Poe's name appeared in the 2012 Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate.

Through her father, Fernando Poe Jr., Poe has two adopted half-siblings. Both of these half-siblings are actors: Ronian, born to actress Ana Marin; and Lourdes Virginia (Lovi), born to model Rowena Moran. However, she did not grow up with her half-siblings, even admitting that she met Lovi for the first time after their father died.

On July 27, 1991, Poe married Teodoro Misael Daniel "Neil" Vera Llamanzares. Llamanzares is a natural-born Filipino who has held American citizenship since birth until April 2016. He served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 1991 and later worked for Science Applications International Corporation. After the return of his wife to the Philippines, he worked for San Miguel Corporation.

On April 16, 1992, Poe gave birth to her son, Brian, a reporter who worked as a reporter for CNN Philippines. Hanna in 1998 and Nika in 2004. For a year, her family lived in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Political career

Fernando Poe, Jr., Poe's father, revealed in 2003 that he was running for president of the Philippines under the banner of Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) against then-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Poe returned to the Philippines to assist him with his campaign but then returned to the United States.

Fernando Poe, Jr., Jr., was admitted to the hospital after suffering a stroke later this year. Grace landed in the Philippines right away, but only after her father died on December 14, 2004. Following her father's death, Poe and her family decided to return to the Philippines permanently on April 8, 2005, in order to be with her widowed mother.

Poe served as a convenor of Kontra Daya in the 2010 general election. She also served as the honorary chairperson of the FPJ for President George (FPJPM), the party that was established to pressure her father to run in 2004, and the group's social justice services for the poor. President Benigno Aquino III appointed Poe as chairwoman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board on October 10, 2010. She was sworn in on October 21, 2010, at the Malacaang Palace, and then reappointed by President Aquino for a second term on October 23, 2011.

Poe, who worked at the MTRCB, had argued for a "proactive" department that would have aided the television and film industries in helping the Philippine economy, with her tenure characterized by an emphasis on diplomacy. Poe ordered the introduction of a new ratings system for television programs at the start of her term, promising to encourage parents to exercise caution and vigilance with their children's viewing habits. At the end of her term, the introduction of a new rating scheme for movies — a device that closely follows the latest television ratings system — was supplemented by the introduction of a new ratings system.

The MTRCB also introduced policies and services to promote "intelligent viewing," such as promulgating the introduction of rules and guidelines for the Children's Television Act of 1997, fifteen years after its inception, and enforcing limits on the type of viewing content that can be displayed on public buses. Despite this ferocity, Poe has spoken out against freedom of expression, favouring self-regulation over censorship. During this period, she promoted the welfare of child and female actors, as well as the reduction of review fees.

Although Poe had planned to run as a candidate as early as 2010, it wasn't announced that she would run for governor until October 1, 2012, when the administration Team PNOy coalition announced that she had been selected by the government as a member of their senatorial slate. On October 2, 2012, Poe received her certificate of candidacy. Though running under the banner of the Team PNoy camp, Poe ran as an outsider. Poe was also a guest of the left-leaning Makabayang Mamamayan. Poe was on February 21, 2013, along with Senator Loren Legarda and Francis Escudero, one of three common guest candidates of Vice President Jejomar Binay's opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), one of three main campaign candidates.

Analysts cited the rapid rise of Poe in national election results, which community organizer Harvey Keh attributed to widespread sympathy for her father, which was fueled in part by a surge in public confidence in the Poe name. In a preliminary poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) in mid-2012, Poe stood 20th in the election season, before the start of the reporting period. Poe ranked fifteenth in the first poll of the election, which was published by StratPOLLS. Although she came in 20th in a SWS poll published later this year, she ranked in the top 12 in January 2013, where she stayed. She ranked third in Pulse Asia's most recent survey, published in April 2013.

Although Poe herself acknowledged that her surname was her best asset in the campaign, she later conceded that it would be insufficient for her to be elected simply on that alone, emphasizing that her brand is just as important as her name in getting her elected to the Senate. She also denied allegations that her candidacy was her family's revenge for her father's death in 2004, saying that all she wants to do is serve if she were to vote for the Senate. Poe was announced as one of the winners with the largest number of votes a day after the election. She was officially named a senator by the COMELEC board in May 2013, alongside fellow Team PNOy candidates Chiz Escudero, Sonny Angara, Alan Peter Cayetano, and Loren Legarda, as well as United Nationalist Alliance candidate Nancy Binay (who did not attend, deciding instead to send her advocate to represent her).

Poe ran on an eleven-point platform in the 2013 election, promising to pass on her father's legacy. More opportunities, skill development, and improvement for Filipino employees, job protection for the disabled, and handicapped are among the legislative priorities on her agenda, as well as worker protection in the informal sector. Specific measures she introduced during her campaign include: reviving the national elementary school lunch program first introduced during the Marcos period, the introduction of closed-circuit television cameras in government offices, and tighter measures against child pornography, as well as earlier efforts during her time at the MTRCB. In addition, she has also spoken out against internet censorship.

Poe has also stressed the importance of female participation in government, having already passed a number of legislation to increase the rights of women and children in her term of office; she also called for an inquiry into the wellbeing of women detainees and prisoners; and an inquiry into the welfare of female prisoners and prisoners.

Poe filed a bill calling for "film tourism" on her first day as a senator in the 16th Congress, aiming to make the Philippines the world's biggest destination for local and international films. She predicted that this would also result in jobs and tourism in the Philippines. The Filipino child" bill, which seeks to provide free nutritious meals to children enrolling in public elementary schools and high schools in K-12, was also introduced by Poe. It aims to combat hunger and hunger, which has hampered the Filipino youth's aspirations.

In their first 1,000 days after being born, Poe introduced the "First 1000 days" bill, which aims to protect and assist Filipino children. This article addresses the issue of Filipino children's malnutrition by providing diet advice, milk feeding, and other child care services. In addition, Poe is calling for the Freedom of Information bill, which will increase transparency and reduce corruption in the government. Government operations will be open to the public under this bill.

Poe was a leader of the Mamasapano protest in 2015, which resulted in the death of 44 Special Action Force members.

Poe was widely predicted to be a potential presidential or vice presidential nominee in the 2016 general elections, as well as potential running mates such as Rep. Leni Robredo and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. Poe came first in a presidential preference poll released by Pulse Asia in June 2015, outranking current front runner Vice President Jejomar Binay, who had a 22% rating, who was ranked first. She also ranked first in the vice presidential poll, with a 41% favored national survey. Poe also placed first in an opinion survey published by Social Weather Stations (SWS) in June 2015, with a 42% vote. With a 41% rating, she also came in first in the SWS' vice presidential poll, placing her first in SWS' vice president's poll.

Poe, together with Francis Escudero, declared her presidential campaign on September 16, 2015, in front of hundreds of supporters, relatives, and acquaintances at the Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, which is led by the Nationalist People's Party. Former Philippine President and Mayor Joseph Estrada has extended his assistance to her. Grace Poe laid down a 20-point government initiative in her address announcing her presidential campaign.

Poe lacked the 10-year residency requirement for a presidential candidate, according to United National Alliance (UNA) interim president and Navotas Representative Toby Tiangco in June. Poe's certificate of candidacy (COC) for senator in 2012, which she had said she had been a resident of the Philippines for six years and six months. Even during the 2016 presidential elections, Tiangco said that Poe would still be six months short of the residency requirement.

The Senate Electoral Tribunal ruled not to hear the charges against her on November 17, 2015. The decision was confirmed on December 3, 2015. The SET found that Grace Poe, a foundling, is a "natural-born Filipino," allowing her to keep her seat in the Philippine Senate. David's motion for reconsideration to reverse the decision by SET was dismissed on December 3, 2015, shortly after which he filed a appeal with the Supreme Court. On December 1, 2015, the COMELEC's second division disqualified her as a presidential nominee due to the inability to fulfill the "10-year rule" for residency. The party or coalition that supports her will request a replacement before December 10, 2015. Poe disqualified in the commission's first division, which also disqualified Poe on December 11. The petitions were approved by a 2–1 vote in favor of the petitions to disqualify and cancel her certificate of candidacy. These decisions were appealed to the COMELEC en banc, which disqualified Poe from running for president in the 2016 election because of the failure to satisfy the 10-year residency requirement. Poe said she would appeal the disqualification to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court delivered two provisional restraining orders against the COMELEC's en banc's decision on December 28, 2015.

The Supreme Court confirmed Poe's natural-born status and 10-year residency on March 8, 2016, voting 9–6. The Supreme Court declared their decision final and executory on April 9, 2016.

Poe voted in favor of a bill introduced by senator Risa Hontiveros in November 2016 seeking to avoid the burial of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

She voted in favour of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act in February 2017 (TRAIN Act). Poe said she voted in favor because President Duterte'needed funds after the inflation rate increased as a result of the amendment.' Poe did not support the resolution, saying that the Senate has a voice in the termination of any treaty or international deal. She voted in favour of the extension of martial law in Mindanao on December 13, 2017.

Poe was one of the senators to endorse a motion urging the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision granting the quo warranto petition and oustering Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on May 17, 2018. She voted in favor of a national ID scheme in June 2018. Poe stated her bid for re-election in the Senate in September 2018. On October 15, she obtained her senator's certificate of candidacy.

Poe chaired the commission, which included China Telecom and businessman Dennis Uy's Udenna Corp and Chelsea Logistics, which was the third telecommunications company to bid in 2019. The approval was contested due to the company's links to China, Chinese security risks, and its failures to Philippine franchise laws. Despite this, Poe approved the company's admission to the plenary on February 6, the company's endorsement of the plenary was approved by the corporation.

Poe was reelected to the Senate with over 22 million votes on May 13, 2019, only second behind fellow Senator Cynthia Villar.

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