MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Order No. 264, July 3, 2007 ]

EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8116 and 8115 PROMULGATED ON 01 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE 24, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF NAVOTAS IN METRO MANILA INTO A HIGHLY-URBANIZED CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF NAVOTAS, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 9387.

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. 8116 and 8115 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), both promulgated 01 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 Metro Manila, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the June 24, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Navotas in Metro Manila into a highly-urbanized city to be known as the City of Navotas, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9387.

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.1aшphi1

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


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