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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 198 - PROVIDING
FOR THE MANNER OF NOMINATION AND APPOINTMENT OF SECTORAL
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE HOUSE OR REPRESENTATIVES
WHEREAS,
Sec. 5(2), Article VI of the 1987 Constitution provides; that: “The
party-list representatives shall constitutes twenty per centum of the
total number of representatives including those under the party-list.
For three consecutive terms after the ratification of his Constitution,
one-half of the seats allocated to party-list representatives shall be
filled, as provided by law, by selection or election from the labor,
peasant urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth, and
such other sectors as may be provided by law, except the religious
sector”;
WHEREAS, Sec. 7, Article XVIII of the 1987 Constitutions states,
“Unit a law is passed, the President may fill by appointment from a
list of nominees by the respective sectors the seats reserved for
sectoral representation in paragraph (2), Sec. 5 of Article VI of
this Constitution”;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do
hereby order:
Section 1.
Nine (9) sectors shall be presented in the House of Representatives,
namely: (a) labor; (b) peasant; (c) urban poor; (d) indigenous cultural
communities; (e) women; (f) youth; (g) veterans; (h) the elderly and
(i) the disabled, whose representatives shall be appointed by the
President from the nominees of their respective sectors or of a member
of the sector in the manner herein provided.
Sec. 2.
The peasant sector covers the agricultural group, which includes all
persons who personally and physically till the land as their principal
occupation, agricultural tenants and lessees, rural workers and farm
employees, owner-cultivators, settlers and small fishermen.
The urban poor sector includes the underprivileged and homeless
citizens in urban areas.
The indigenous cultural communities sector covers all ethnic groups
cultural communities.
The women sector shall cover all women.
The youth sector embraces persons not more than thirty-five years of
age.
The veterans sector embraces persons recognized as such veterans by the
Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The elderly sector covers persons who are sixty-five years of age or
over.
The sector of the disabled covers the physically and socially disabled.
Sec. 3.
(b)
(c)
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
Sec. 6.
Sec. 7.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 18th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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