Chief Justice Zaila McCalla will today have a hearing in the first lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court challenging the nomination of a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate because of alleged dual citizenship.

Abe Dabdoub, the People's National Party (PNP) candidate for West Portland, filed the suit last month against his JLP contender Daryl Vaz.

Vaz won the seat on election day.

Dabdoub is contending that Vaz is the holder of a passport issued by the United States government.

Dabdoub states in the suit, filed by attorney-at-law Gayle Nelson, that by virtue of Vaz's own act he was under an acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state in contravention of section 40 of the Jamaican Constitution.

Dabdoub is seeking to have Vaz disqualified from being a Member of Parliament.

Norman Washington Manley Bowen, former PNP Member of Parliament and an electorin North East St. Ann has also filed a suit contending that JLP candidate Shahine Robinson, who won the election in that constituency, has US citizenship. He is asking that Oswest Senior-Smith, the PNP candidate, be declared as the Member of Parliament.