Memorandum Order No. 267




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 267, July 25, 2007 ] EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NO. 8207 PROMULGATED ON 28 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION THE JULY 14, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF GUILHULNGAN IN THE PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF GUIHULNGAN, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9409 Pursuant to Section 2, (4), Article IX of the Constitution, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby concur with Resolution No. 8207 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), promulgated on 28 June 2007, deputizing the 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 Negros Oriental, 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 Guihulngan, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9409. The foregoing law enforcement agencies 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.1âшphi1 DONE, in the City of Manila, this 25th 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 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation