DILG chief believes marriages solemnized by Alice Guo to remain valid if done in ‘good faith’

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00:00The lower house continued the plenary debates on the proposed 2025 national budget,

00:05even though seemingly off-tangent considering the discussion should be focused on the proper

00:10allocation of government funds, the name of Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo came up again.

00:16Why? Melales Moras reveals the reason in her report.

00:22DALG Secretary Benher Abolos believes marriages solemnized by Dismissed Bamban

00:27Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo will remain valid despite questions on her nationality.

00:33During the plenary debate on the proposed 2025 budget of the Philippine Statistics Authority,

00:38Four Peace Partylist Representative JC Abolos asked what will happen to marriages conducted

00:43by the former mayor if it is proven she's not a Filipino. The lawmaker noted that under the law,

00:49a person who does not have the authority to solemnize can make a marriage official.

00:54But for the DALG Secretary, there should be no problem if the ceremony was performed in good

00:59faith. I will just refer you direct to the family code, chapter 3, article 35, number 2.

01:09Those solemnized, the following marriages shall be void from the beginning.

01:16Number 2, those solemnized by any person not legally authorized to perform marriages

01:22unless such marriages were contracted with either or both parties believing in good faith

01:30that the solemnizing officer had the legal authority to do so.

01:35If you are a good faith believer that Alice Guo really has the authority to solemnize,

01:41and I guess most of them think so because she is a mayor, you could make use of this article.

01:51It's chapter 3 of the void and voidable, article 35, number 2.

01:57In an interview, the PSA shared the same belief. Although for now, they are focused on the issue

02:02of canceling Guo's Filipino birth certificate, which is the crux of the issue.

02:07Our lawyers are looking for what will be the effect. They said that in good faith,

02:15not necessarily, but we will check. First of all, we don't know how many marriages he had.

02:23So that's what our team is doing right now. We are looking at how many marriages of Mayor Alice.

02:29At present, deliberations on the 2025 budget proposal of various government agencies continue

02:35in the House plenary. One of the agencies which went under scrutiny recently is the

02:40Department of the Interior and Local Government and its attached agencies.

03:05For our modernization, our firetrucks and fire stations, probably by the end of this year,

03:14we made sure that the 214 that is missing is already finished. So how to maintain this?

03:21I will say that our budget is very reasonable and I expect it to be finished in time, very quickly.

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