Duterte signs law creating lone district of Mandaue City
Credit to Author: RALPH VILLANUEVA| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 04:47:13 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law creating the lone district of Mandaue City.
This means that under Republic Act (RA) 11257 signed on April 5, 2019, Mandaue will no longer be the sixth legislative district of Cebu.
According to the law, copies of which were released to media on Wednesday, the City of Mandaue will operate as the lone legislative district in the next national and local elections, when the law becomes effective 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
The measure also mandated the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement the provisions of the Act, within 30 days after its effectivity.
The incumbent representative of the present sixth legislative district of Cebu will continue serving Mandaue City until the new representative of the lone legislative district will be elected.
Earlier this year, Duterte also reapportioned the first legislative district of the province of South Cotabato to create the lone legislative district of General Santos City.
He also signed a measure splitting the province of Southern Leyte into two legislative districts.
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