Full Title
EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8180 AND 8181 BOTH PROMULGATED 13 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE 23, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TANDAG IN THE PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TANDAG, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9392
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Executive Issuance Type
Memorandum Order
President
Arroyo, Gloria M.
Date of Approval
July 3, 2007

Other Details

Issuance Category
Executive Issuance
Subjects
PLEBISCITE -- TANDAG, SURIGAO DEL SUR
COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS (COMELEC)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DEPED)
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DILG)
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- TANDAG CITY
NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION (NAPOLCOM)
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE (PNP)
Related to Note
the Constitution, sec. 2(4), art. IX (C), s1987.
RA 9392

Full Text of Issuance

Memorandum Order No. 261, s. 2007

Signed on July 3, 2007

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 261

EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8180 AND 8181 BOTH PROMULGATED 13 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE 23, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TANDAG IN THE PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TANDAG, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9392

Pursuant to Section 2, (4), Article IX (C) of the Constitution, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby concur with Resolution Nos. 8181 and 8180 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) both promulgated 13 June 2007, deputizing the Department of Education (DepEd): Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH); Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), including their secretaries: National Police Commission including its Chairman;  and the Philippine National Police (PNP), including its Chief, and all the officers and men under him in the Province of Surigao del Sur, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the June 23, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Tandag in the Province of Surigao del Sur into a component city to be known as the City of Tandag, pursuant to Republic Art No. 9392.

The foregoing national and local officials and employees, law enforcement agencies and other instrumentalities of the government, are hereby directed to coordinate and cooperate with the Commission on Elections in the performance of their duties and functions.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE, in the City of Manila this 3rd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.

(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

By the President:

(SGD.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA

Executive Secretary

 

Source: Official Gazette