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On August 21, 2022, the first year in office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., hardly any government agency commemorated Ninoy’s death. Worse, some evenabout Ninoy being a supposed founder of the communist underground, amplified and parroted by Duterte acolytes in the payroll of an anti-communist task force funded by taxpayers’ money.as she thanked Filipinos who remembered.
True, this so-called holiday economics that allows presidents to move certain holidays to the nearest Monday to make long weekends has basis in law , crafted and issued under former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2007 to boost domestic tourism. Why Arroyo and our brilliant lawmakers would craft such a law about something as seasonal as domestic tourism just proves how they got their priorities wrong. This law had been rendered useless by presidents after her.
Of course, now it’s President Marcos’ turn to move this and that holiday. The first time Marcos declared the holidays and special non-working days of 2023, the anniversary of the February 25, 1986, People Power Revolution that ousted his father and family from the Philippines was included in the list as a “special non-working day.” But he moved it last-minute to February 24 instead, which coincided with a local festival in their home province of Ilocos Norte.