PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte signed into law a bill creating the lone legislative district of General Santos City in South Cotabato province. Duterte signed Republic Act 11243 on March 11 and a copy of which was released to media only recently.
General Santos City is currently part of the province’s first legislative district.
Under the law, “The First Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato is hereby reapportioned in order to create the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City to commence in the next national and local elections after the effectivity of this Act.”
The legislative districts of South Cotabato will now be composed of: First Legislative District: Polomolok, Tampakan and Tupi. Second Legislative District: Koronadal City, Banga, Lake Sebu, Norala, Santo Niño, Surallah, Tantangan and T’Boli. And the Third Legislative District is now General Santos City.
The new law states that “the incumbent Representatives of the present First and Second Legislative Districts of the Province of South Cotabato shall continue to represent the districts until the new Representatives shall have been elected and qualified.”
Moreover, “the Commission on Elections shall issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Act within 30 days after its effectivity”. General Santos is classified as a highly urbanized first-class city and the 15th most populous city in the country with 594,446 inhabitants as per 2015 census, according to the Philippine Information Agency.
The Act was passed by the House of Representatives on May 2, 2017, amended by the Senate on September 3, 2018 and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on January 29, 2019. (Azer Parrocha)
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