President Marcos declared Friday, Feb. 24, a special nonworking day nationwide to create a long weekend and allow an earlier commemoration of the Edsa People Power Revolution that toppled his father’s dictatorship in 1986.
The People Power Monument, the 1986 revolution landmark on Edsa in Quezon City. INQUIRER file photo / GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE
President Marcos declared Friday, Feb. 24, a special nonworking day nationwide to create a long weekend and allow an earlier commemoration of theProclamation No. 167, signed by the President and released by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Thursday, moved the holiday marking the 37th anniversary of the peaceful uprising from Feb. 25 to Feb. 24.
The Department of Labor and Employment was directed to issue the appropriate circular to implement the proclamation for the private sector.
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