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This national electoral calendar for 2024 lists the national/federal elections held, and scheduled to be held, in 2024 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
August 25 – September 10 - The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup take place in Indonesia, Japan and Philippines. The Government of the Philippines (Presidential Communications Office), MediaQuest Holdings (Cignal TV and TV5 Network, Inc.) and their sister companies PLDT-Smart Communications awarded the local rights to the annual games which ...
On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. [4] January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; March 29 – Maundy Thursday; March 30 – Good Friday; May 1 – Labor Day; July 4 – Philippine Republic Day; August 13 – Legal Holiday; August 26 – National ...
9 August – Members of the dissolved Move Forward Party announce their regrouping in Parliament under the new People's Party. [42] 14 August – Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is dismissed by the Constitutional Court of Thailand for appointing Pichit Chuenban to his cabinet despite the latter having had a prior criminal conviction. [43]
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 Philippines is a typhoon-prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the West Philippine Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) was created in 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines. It is a tax-exempt, government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. On August 4, 1969, Republic Act 6111 or the Philippine Medical Care Act of ...
As per Act No. 2711 section 29, [3] issued on March 10, 1917, any legal holiday of fixed date falls on Sunday, the next succeeding day shall be observed as legal holiday. Sundays are also considered legal religious holidays. Bonifacio Day was added through Philippine Legislature Act No. 2946.