MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 265, July 13, 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. 8190 AND 8189, BOTH PROMULGATED 19 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JULY 14, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TAYABAS IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEZON INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TAYABAS, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 9398.
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. 8190 and 8189 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), both promulgated 19 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 Quezon, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful, and credible conduct of the July 14, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Tayabas in the Province of Quezon into a component city to be known as the City of Tayabas, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9398.
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.1âшphi1
This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE, in the City of Manila, this 13th 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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