Rep-elect Joey Uy asks Comelec to reverse disqualification

Manila Representative-elect Joey Uy has appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to reverse the Second Division's decision annulling his victory in the May 2025 elections.

The Comelec Second Division ruled Uy not to be a natural-born citizen, declaring incumbent Bienvenido Abante as the winner.

The poll body stated that Uy's father was a Chinese citizen who became a naturalized Filipino in 1967, after Uy's birth in 1962.

Uy's mother was a natural-born Filipino prior to their marriage in January 1944.

The Comelec division sided with Abante's argument that Uy's declaration of being a natural-born citizen in his certificate of candidacy constituted material misrepresentation.

In his motion for reconsideration, Uy asserted he is a natural-born Filipino, citing the 1935 Constitution which states that a child born to a Filipino mother and a foreign father is a Filipino citizen if they elect to be so upon reaching majority.