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2023 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2023. On July 21, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos announced that the government will formally lift the COVID-19 state of public health emergency, marking the end of the three years of the pandemic. The emergency was officially lifted the following day.
[12]: 35–36 The restoration of Philippine representation to the Cortes was one of the grievances raised by the Ilustrados. For the most part it was a campaign for secular self-government as a full part of Spain, [1]: 105–107 as well as equality between those born in Spain and those born in the Philippines. Much of the campaigning took place ...
Murad Ebrahim, Interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and chair of another former Moro separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) called for strengthened support behind Marcos and the Philippine government "to allow peace and civility to reign over the affairs of our land". [51]
February 4. The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid 7431 Jettaguilar in honor of Jose Francisco Aguilar, a medical doctor and amateur astronomer. [12]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation places three members of Kingdom of Jesus Christ on its most wanted list, among them its founder Apollo Quiboloy, accused of sex trafficking.
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
The protest during Ferdinand Marcos' Fifth State of the Nation Address on January 26, 1970, and its violent dispersal by police units, [1] marked a key turning point in the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, and the beginning of what would later be called the "First Quarter Storm" a period of civil unrest in the Philippines which took place during the first quarter of the year 1970.
24 May – Aguinaldo announces in Cavite, "... I return to assume command of all the forces for the attainment of our lofty aspirations, establishing a dictatorial government which will set forth decrees under my sole responsibility, ..." [15] June 12, 1898 – Independence is proclaimed in Kawit by the Dictatorial Government of the Philippines ...
This article covers the history of the current Philippine republican state following the 1986 People Power Revolution, known as the Fifth Philippine Republic.. The return of democracy and government reforms beginning in 1986 were hampered by national debt, government corruption, coup attempts, disasters, a persistent communist insurgency, [1] and a military conflict with Moro separatists. [2]