If the approval of his burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is any indication, it looks like the residents of Ilocos Norte will soon be having an additional non-working holiday: President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Day.
The Ilocos Norte Provincial Board (INPB) “has unanimously approved the resolution billed as President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Day” according to a report from Philippine Star.
All it needs is President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval.
The Board asked Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas and Rep. Imelda Romualdez Marcos — yes, the dictator’s widow — to sponsor the bill in congress.
The INPB aims for the resolution to be approved just in time for the former Philippine president and dictator’s 99th birth anniversary on Sep 11, 2016. One week before the scheduled burial of Marcos in Libingan ng mga Bayani.
According to Ilocos Norte Vice Governor Eugenio Angelo Barba, the holiday is meant to pay tribute to Marcos, “the province’s most illustrious son and for being the longest serving chief executive in the history of the Philippines.”
Well, that’s one way to put it.
