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Public Holidays in Philippines
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino stated the Administrative Code of the country Philippines. Chapter 7- of this code showed a list of ten regular Philippines public holidays to be observed and two nationwide special Philippines public holidays that are observed and provided that the President may suggest any local special day for a particular date, group or even a place.
Philippines Public Holidays
Seven of the regular Philippines public holidays were specified with few fixed dates, two with movable dates, and one was specified to lie on the Last Sunday of August. The code did not show how the movable dates were to be determined. In 2001, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo made a decision to include Philippines public holidays manipulation, a.k.a. “Holiday Economics” as a part of the then government’s list of principal economic policies, moving the celebration dates for holidays which were occurring on midweek days to weekend days. This was codified by Republic Act. No. 9492 of the constitution, approved on July 24, 2007, which replaced the list of Philippines public holidays and special days. This act had been shown to be specified by the Administrative Code with a new list of eleven national Philippines public holidays and three nationwide special days.
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Religious Holidays in Philippines
The act also showed that Eid ul Adha should be celebrated as a regional holiday in the Muslim Mindanao. The act also specified two of the holidays and one special day with few fixed dates, five of the weekend holidays and two special days as occurring on a Monday nearest to the specified dates, and two of the holidays which are having movable dates.
National Holidays in Philippines
The act made it mandatory that the President shall issue a declaration for specifying the date movable holidays at least six months before the Philippines public holidays concerned. The act that specified Philippines public holidays falling on a Wednesday will be observed on the Monday of the week that holidays falling on a Sunday will be observed on Monday that follows after that Sunday, and provided that regular Philippines public holidays and special days may be modified by order or by declaration. Independence Day was previously celebrated on July 4, and the date of the Philippines independence was freedom from the USA in 1946, a date which is selected because it was also American Independence Day. On May 12, 1962, President Diosdado Macapagal issued a Presidential Proclamation No. 28, which declared Tuesday, June 12 a special Philippines public holidays throughout the country.
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