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The Philippine Councilors League (PCL; Filipino: Liga ng mga Konsehal ng Pilipinas) is an official organization in the Philippines composed of all elected, appointed, and ex officio members of legislative councils in the cities and municipalities of the country.
Sangguniang Panlalawigan (abbreviated as SP; lit. ' provincial council '), commonly known as the Provincial Board, are the legislatures in Philippine provinces.They are the legislative branches of the provinces, and their powers and responsibilities are defined by the Local Government Code of 1991. [1]
The Taguig City Council (Filipino: Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Tagig) is the legislature of Taguig, Philippines.The legislative body is composed of 18 councilors, with 16 councilors elected from Taguig's two councilor districts (coextensive with the Legislative districts of Taguig and Taguig–Pateros, excluding the municipality of Pateros) [1] and two elected from the ranks of barangay ...
Filipino city and municipal councilors (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "City councils in the Philippines" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
In the U.S. the most similar political position to a barangay captain is a county executive (though the US counterpart covers more land and has more population on average than a Filipino barangay), the US colonial administration of the Philippines helped model the barangay captain's powers to that more of a US county executive.
A barangay councilor (Filipino: kagawad or konsehal) is an elected government official who is a member of the Sangguniang Barangay (Barangay Council) of a particular barangay, the smallest political unit in the Philippines. Each barangay council has seven regular councilors who are elected at-large by multi-member plurality voting. Barangay ...
The Ilustrados (Spanish: [ilusˈtɾaðos], "erudite", [1] "learned" [2] or "enlightened ones" [3]) constituted the Filipino intelligentsia (educated class) during the Spanish colonial period in the late 19th century. [4] [5] Elsewhere in New Spain (of which the Philippines were part), the term gente de razón carried a similar meaning.
The Manila City Council (Filipino: Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Maynila) is the legislature of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.It is composed of 38 councilors, with 36 councilors elected from Manila's six councilor districts (coextensive with the Legislative districts of Manila) and two councilors elected from the ranks of barangay (neighborhood) chairmen and the Sangguniang Kabataan ...