MALACAÃANG
Manila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 267
EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NO. 8207 PROMULGATED ON 28 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JULY 14, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF GUILHULNGAN IN THE PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF GUIHULNGAN, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9409
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 No. 8207 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), promulgated on 28 June 2007, deputizing the 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 Negros Oriental, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the July 14, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Guilhulngan in the Province of Negros Oriental into a component city to be known as the City of Guilhulngan, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9409.
The foregoing law enforcement agencies 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 25th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.
(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
By the President:
(Sgd.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA
Executive Secretary
