If you’re a registered voter, you have no excuse not to vote in the barangay elections, as Malacanang declared October 28 a special non-working holiday.
Proclamation No. 656 signed by President Benigno Aquino September 25, said the holiday has been declared to allow Filipinos to exercise their right to suffrage. October 28 is a Monday, thereby listing a new long weekend for October.
“[I]t is important to give the people the fullest opportunity to participate in the said elections and exercise their right to vote,” Aquino said in the proclamation.
The announcement came even as the Senate and the House of Representatives have approved a bill seeking to postpone the SK polls which Pres. Benigno Aquino III just signed into law. /MP
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