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SENATOR Risa Hontiveros questioned on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the real identity of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, as she sounded the alarm over the possibility that she is a Chinese “asset.”In a press conference, Hontiveros, chairperson of Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality, which conducts investigation on the raided Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators in Bamban, cited several times that Guo lied during the hearing on Tuesday, May 8.“She lied.
Guo only registered her live birth with the Philippine Statistics Authority when she was already 17 years old. She also does not have a hospital record of birth and even school records as she claimed she was home schooled.She said she grew up in a well-off family whose father is a businessman.Hontiveros also said during a press conference that not a single resident of Bamban knew Guo before she ran for office in the 2022 elections.
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