Given the hereunder information, determine if Gabby Lopez is qualified to run and manage

ABS-CBN as President & CEO thereof:

1. That, based on the copy of Gabby Lopez’s birth certificate which they acquired, he was born
in Boston on August 13, 1952.

2. That his parents, Eugenio López Jr and Conchita La’O, were both Filipino.

3. That Gabby Lopez was issued a US passport in 1996, and it was the same year he assumed the
chairmanship of ABS-CBN.

4. That, on October 3, 2000, the Manila Times claimed that Gabby Lopez “applied” for
Philippine citizenship when he wrote then-immigration commissioner Rufus Rodriguez, stating:
“I am respectfully requesting for recognition as a Filipino citizen and the issuance of a
Certificate of Recognition pursuant to the rules of the Bureau of Immigration.”

5. That, finally, this document, among others, “indicate that it took Lopez 14 years after
becoming an officer of ABS-CBN to decide to become a Filipino citizen.”