QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 391)
To declare Friday, 05 January 2018, as a special (non-working) day in Barangays NBBS, Tangos, and Tanza, City of Navotas, to give voters full opportunity to participate in the plebiscites required to ratify the creation of certain barangays.
Barangays NBBS, Tangos, and Tanza in the City of Navotas.
Friday, 05 January 2018.
Menardo I. Guevarra, Acting Executive Secretary, by authority of the President.
It reflects the intent to safeguard and promote the right of eligible voters to participate fully in an election/plebiscite conducted by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
Three (3) plebiscites.
To ratify the creation of certain barangays in the City of Navotas.
It typically means that work is suspended for the declared area on the specified date to ensure voters can attend/participate in the plebiscite, subject to existing laws and wage/order rules applicable to labor in such situations.
It states that declaring the day as non-working is fitting and proper so the people of the specified barangays have the opportunity to actively and fully participate in voting.
It purports to have the force of a presidential issuance because it is signed by the Acting Executive Secretary 'by authority of the President.'
It limits the non-working day to those specific barangays, not necessarily to the entire city or province.
It signals the operative portion of the issuance—i.e., the actual declaration that becomes enforceable.
They indicate that the proclamation is properly executed as a formal government instrument, with the required signature authority and the seal of the Republic.
The document states 'By authority of the President,' and it names Salvador C. Medialdea as Executive Secretary in the signature block for that authority.
It illustrates the government’s use of executive issuances to facilitate the conduct of election-related plebiscites by removing practical impediments (like work obligations) so voters can participate.