Alice Guo's lawyer says photos to prove her mom's Filipino, hoping for DNA test

A lawyer for Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo has said that they would present photographs that will prove her mother is a Filipino.

According to Joseph Morong's report on "24 Oras," Guo's lawyer Atty. Stephen David is also hoping that her mother would show up so she could take a DNA test.

"Pilipino ang nanay n'ya; iniwan lang sya," David told GMA Integrated News.

(Her mother is Filipino, she just left Mayor Guo.)

"Naghahanap s’ya. ‘Yun nga ‘yun sabi ko sa next hearing ilabas lahat ‘yang mga ‘yan. Meron, may mga albums," he added.

(I told her to release her mother's photos in the next hearing. There are photos in the albums. She is looking for it.)

"'Yung mommy niya, ang problema, hindi naman niya nakita 'yan e. Kaya sana ang ano nga niya, sana lumabas niya para ma-DNA natin," David said.

Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Vicente Mendoza said it was enough for Guo to have a Filipino mother under the 1987 Constitution.

Guo had declared in Senate hearings that her father was Chinese and that her mother was Filipino.

"(Under the 1987 Constitution)... it is enough that a person was born of a Filipino mother. Tama na 'yun. Hindi na kailangan siya'y nag-elect ng Filipino citizenship," Mendoza told GMA Integrated News.

(That is enough. One doesn't have to elect Filipino citizenship.)

In a statement, Guo had said that she was a love child of her parents after her father made her mother, a house helper, pregnant.

Records of the Senate inquiry showed that both father and mother do not have birth records with the Philippine Statistics Authority.

He added that it was important to establish Guo’s citizenship because of national security concerns.

"In the first place, totoo bang Pilipino ang nanay niya? Kasi pwedeng 'yan ay planted lamang," Mendoza said.

"Meron ba siyang Filipino mother? Or siya ba’y isinulpot lamang at dayuhan talaga sya? ‘Yung nanay ba nya’ ipinanganak doon? Bakit walang record 'ata?” she added.

(Is it true that her mother is Filipino? She could have been just planted. Does she have a Filipino mother? Or did she just appear and is actually a foreigner? Was her mother born there? Why doesn't she have any record, it appears?) —NB, GMA Integrated News