PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III did not declare June 30, the day President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is inaugurated, a holiday, Malacañang said Wednesday.
“As per the text message I received from ES [Executive Secretary Paquito] Ochoa at 12:10 p.m. today [June 29]: ‘June 30, 2016 is a regular working day’,” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a text message to reporters.
Six years ago, then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared President-elect Benigno Aquino III’s inauguration on June 30, 2010, a special non-working holiday.
Aquino was inaugurated at the Quirino Grandstand at the Rizal Park in Manila.
It has been a tradition in the Philippines that the day of the inauguration of the incoming president is declared a holiday by the sitting president.
