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A parliamentary election was held in the Philippines on April 7, 1978, for the election of the 165 regional representatives to the Interim Batasang Pambansa (the nation's first parliament). The leading opposition party, the Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN), ran twenty-one candidates for the Metro Manila area.
October 1–14 – The 1978 FIBA World Championship is hosted by Philippines. Rizal Memorial Coliseum at Manila and Araneta Coliseum at Quezon City, Metro Manila were the venues for the event. [8] The Philippines ranked seventh place in the event. December 9–20 – The Philippines participated in the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand ...
The following are the results of the 1978 Philippine parliamentary election by region and ... Young Philippines: 261,982: 2.41: Hilario Abonal: Bicol Saro: 226,515: 2.09:
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The seal of the Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1986, during which the Philippines had a unicameral legislature. The Batasang Pambansa (English: National Assembly; lit. ' National Legislature '), often referred to simply as the Batasan, [1] was the legislature of the Philippines, established as an interim assembly in 1978 and later as an official body in 1984.
[3] [4] The president is directly elected by qualified voters to a six-year term and must be "a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least forty years of age on the day of the election, and a resident of the Philippines for at least ten years immediately preceding such election". No elected ...
The prime minister of the Philippines [a] [b] was the official designation of the head of the government (whereas the president of the Philippines was the head of state) of the Philippines from 1978 until the People Power Revolution in 1986.
According to World Bank data, the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled from $8 billion in 1972 to $32.45 billion in 1980, for an inflation-adjusted average growth rate of 6% per year. [40] Indeed, according to the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation, the Philippines enjoyed its best economic development since 1945 between 1972 and 1980.