Deputizing Law Enforcement Agencies for the June 26, 2007 Plebiscite in Catbalogan, Samar

June 12, 2007

MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 246

EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8088 AND 8089, BOTH PROMULGATED 28 MAY 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE 16, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CATBALOGAN IN THE PROVINCE OF SAMAR INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CATBALOGAN, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 9391

Pursuant to Section 2 (4), Article IX (C) of the Constitution, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby concur with Resolution Nos. 8088 and 8089 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), both promulgated 28 May 2007, deputizing the Department of Education (DepEd); Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH); Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), including their Secretaries; 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 Samar, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the June 16, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Catbalogan in the Province of Samar into a component city to be known as the City of Catbalogan, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9391 dated March 15, 2007. ScaHDT

The foregoing national and local officials and employees, law enforcement agencies and other instrumentalities of the government, 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.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 12th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.