Carmona officers welcome Malacañang approval of cityhood bid
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LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines — The conversion of Carmona right into a element metropolis of Cavite province proved a welcome growth for Fifth District Rep. Roy Loyola and his spouse, Mayor Dahlia Loyola.
On Feb. 23, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Republic Act No. 119381 mandating the city’s cityhood, which the Presidential Communications Workplace introduced the next day.
“It has been 12 lengthy years since we began our journey to cityhood,” the lawmaker stated in a Fb submit on Friday wherein he additionally thanked the senators and representatives who’ve backed Carmona’s cityhood bid — from the fifteenth Congress till the nineteenth Congress.
The mayor was additionally elated concerning the announcement.
The brand new regulation will take impact 15 days after its publication within the Official Gazette or a newspaper of basic publication.
The regulation requires Carmona to carry a plebiscite inside 60 days of approval.
Carmona, labeled as a first-class municipality, has 14 barangays with a inhabitants of 106,256, as of the 2020 census.
Based mostly on the annual monetary report of the Fee on Audit (COA) in 2021, Carmona was tagged because the richest municipality within the nation with complete property of P6.212 billion.
Carmona would be the first municipality to be transformed right into a metropolis underneath Republic Act No. 11683, which amended the Native Authorities Code of 1991 and made it simpler for cities to use for cityhood.
Below RA 11683, which amended Part 450 of RA 7160 or the Native Authorities Code of 1991, a municipality or cluster of barangays with a locally-generated basic annual revenue of no less than P400 million for the final two consecutive years and has a inhabitants of not lower than 100,000 inhabitants could also be transformed right into a element metropolis.
As soon as ratified in a plebiscite, Carmona will change into the eighth metropolis in Cavite.
The seven different cities within the province are Bacoor, Dasmariñas, Common Trias, Imus, Tagaytay, Trece Martires, and Cavite.
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