Despite comments by various citizen groups that SC still has the power to declare BBM as not qualified to be the President, it most unlikely that it will do so:
1. BBM has now been proclaimed as President by NBOC; the DQ case was overtaken by events;
2. If BBM is not qualified to be candidate it should have been done early on when he ran for:
1. Senator, 2. Vice President. If he is not qualified now then he should be DQ'd then
3. It is very unlikely that a person elected by sovereign will of the people can be overturned by decision
of an appointive body.
Various scenario:
1. SC justices will not act on petition or act on it at 6th year of BBM office;
2. SC justices being appointee of Duterte will act on it, and elevate SD the Presidents daughter to Presidency. (a remote possibility because)
3. If BBM is disqualified, the next highest number of votes will become the President LR.
We do understand though and there is a precedent that an elective official after having been discovered as an American citizen was DQ'd by a PET and the BBM detractors might be able to do this.
This post anticipate a slew of defamation and cyber crimes to the individuals who called out BBM with hideous names and tags.
