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On June 29, 2010, Aquino announced his plans for the creation of the truth commission, which would be led by Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr., allowing him to issue an executive order to make the commission official and clear up any ambiguity regarding the commission authority. July 26, 2010, Aquino signed the first executive order to formally ...
On July 30, 2010, a month after being sworn in as the 15th President of the Philippines, Aquino signed Executive Order No. 1, [16] creating the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010. [17] However, the Supreme Court of the Philippines invalidated the executive order because of its apparent transgression of the equal protection clause for singling ...
Aquino announced the formation of a truth commission that would investigate various issues including corruption allegations against his predecessor President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo with former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. as commission head. [59] Aquino took the oath of office on June 30, 2010, at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park, Manila.
Leila de Lima was appointed as the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, serving from 2008 to 2010. [5] Her two-year term was marked by high-profile cases such as the Davao Death Squad , [ 8 ] human rights cases against general Jovito Palparan , [ 9 ] and the Maguindanao ...
Shortly after Marcos was removed through the 1986 People Power revolution, [11] an quasi-judicial government agency named the Presidential Commission on Good Government was created, with the primary mandate of recovering ill-gotten wealth accumulated by the Marcoses, their relatives, subordinates, and close associates, whether located in the ...
After a month in office, President Benigno Aquino III issued Executive Order No. 1 (E.O. 1) on July 30, 2010, creating the Philippine Truth Commission (PTC). The PTC was tasked to conduct a thorough fact-finding investigation of reported cases of graft and corruption involving third level public officers during the administration of Aquino's predecessor Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and thereafter ...
Aquino, the third-youngest person elected president, [1] is the only son of the 11th president, Corazon Aquino, and former senator Benigno Aquino Jr. Aquino continued the process of implementing the K–12 curriculum in the country that started when the Omnibus Education Reform Act of 2008 (Senate Bill 2294) was filed on May 20, 2008 during the ...
Aquino questioned the court's granting of a temporary restraining order lifting the watch list order of the Department of Justice against Arroyo, Arroyo's midnight appointment of Corona, and the ruling of Camarines Sur's two new legislative districts as constitutional despite falling short of the required population set by the Constitution.