Tarlac court docket voids Alice Guo’s beginning certificates

Nationwide Statistician and Philippine Statistics Authority chief Claire Dennis Mapa says a Tarlac Metropolis court docket voided Guo’s beginning certificates in a call dated September 24

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Friday, October 3, introduced the cancellation of former Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo’s beginning certificates.

“And just lately, the Certificates of Reside Delivery of Alice Guo was declared void by the RTC (Regional Trial Courtroom), third Judicial Area Department 111 Tarlac Metropolis, final 24 September,” Nationwide Statistician and PSA chief Claire Dennis Mapa informed the Senate committee on finance.

“So, it is a excellent news for the Philippine authorities, Philippine Statistics Authority, that the RTC declared the beginning registration of Alice Guo void,” he added.

The PSA and the Workplace of the Solicitor Common (OSG) filed a petition with the RTC in July 2024 in search of to cancel the beginning certificates of the then-embattled mayor. Guo was in scorching water because of her alleged ties to a neighborhood Philippine offshore gaming operator in her hometown, plus issues over her true id and nationality.

She is at present detained because of a number of felony circumstances, together with trafficking and cash laundering.

In 2024, the PSA and OSG mentioned Guo did not be eligible for late registration due to the next:

• She didn’t submit the required supporting paperwork
• Though she was already 19 years previous on the time, it was her alleged father who belatedly registered her beginning certificates
• Obtrusive inconsistencies between the entries in her certificates of beginning and data contained in different public data
• The native civil registrar registered her certificates of beginning in violation of present PSA/NSO (Philippine Statistics Authority/Nationwide Statistics Workplace) obligatory guidelines on late registration

Mapa, in the course of the Senate deliberations on its 2026 finances, additionally introduced that the PSA had detected 50,000 probably problematic beginning certificates. Of this quantity, 840 had been extremely irregular, Mapa mentioned, including that two beginning certificates had been already endorsed for cancellation.

Aside from this, Mapa mentioned the OSG endorsed 1,472 beginning certificates for cancellation — largely from Davao del Sur — in 2024. This batch included Guo’s certificates.

In June this yr, Presiding Decide Liwliwa Hidalgo-Bucu of the Manila RTC Department 34 dominated that Guo is “undoubtedly Chinese language,” erasing her mayorship from the data.

The Manila court docket granted the quo warranto petition filed by the OSG that sought to problem Guo’s mayoralty victory and declare that she by no means held workplace within the first place due to ineligibility. Guo ran and gained as mayor of the small city of Bamban, Tarlac, in 2022, however was dismissed by the Ombudsman in 2024.

She didn’t search reelection in 2025. – Rappler.com