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Official historical marker Alternate logo used on official social media pages. The Commission on the Filipino Language (CFL), [2] also referred to as the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), [a] is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages.
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
Map of Metro Manila showing the cities and Municipality of Pateros. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA; Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Pagpapaunlad ng Kalakhang Maynila) is a government agency of the Philippines responsible for constituting the regional government of Metro Manila, comprising the capital city of Manila, the cities of Quezon City, Caloocan, Pasay, Mandaluyong, Makati ...
Article 7, Section 16 of the Constitution of the Philippines says that the President . shall nominate and, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments, appoint the heads of the executive departments, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, or officers of the armed forces from the rank of colonel or naval captain, and other officers whose appointments are vested in him in this ...
Biak-na-Bato Republic: 2 Isabelo Artacho November 1, 1897: December 15, 1897: 3 Leandro Ibarra June 23, 1898: December 1898: Revolutionary Government: 4 Teodoro Sandiko: January 21, 1899 May 7, 1899 First Republic: 5 Severino de las Alas May 7, 1899 November 13, 1899 Secretary of the Interior: N/A "Insular Government" (1900–1935) (American ...
The 1987 Constitution allows for the creation of autonomous regions in the Cordillera Central of Luzon and in the Muslim-majority areas of Mindanao. [2] However, only the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and its predecessor, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, have been approved by voters in plebiscites held in 1989, 2001, and 2019.
The Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines.It is bicameral, composed of an upper body, the Senate, and a lower body, the House of Representatives, [3] although colloquially, the term "Congress" commonly refers to just the latter.
The second elections for the National Assembly were held on November 8, 1938, under a new law that allowed block voting, [9] which favored the governing Nacionalista Party. As expected all the 98 seats of the National Assembly went to the Nacionalistas. José Yulo who was Quezon's Secretary of Justice from 1934 to 1938, was elected Speaker.