11/11/2021
Alam nyo ba na si pangulong Marcos ang gumawa ng batas para magkaroon ng Barangay System ang bansa natin. Ginawa nya ito para makalahok sa mga programa ng gobyerno ang lahat ng mamamayan saang man sulok ng bansa natin. Sa pamamagitan nito naipaparating ng ating mga kababayan ang kanilang kalagayan o mga hinaing kaya kahit sa pinakaliblib na lugar ay naipaparating ang tulong ng gobyerno.
REMINDING THE YOUTH THE TRUTH ABOUT MARTIAL LAW
Pres.Marcos is not a dictator, He was a great Democrat
Presidential Decree No. 86 December 31, 1972
CREATING CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES
Barangay Democracy – On December 31, 1972 President Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 86 creating citizen assemblies in each barrio (or barangay) in municipalities and cities “to broaden the base of citizen participation in the democratic process and to afford ample opportunities to express their views on important national issues.” Later Presidential Decree No. 557 amended the Barrio Charter and changed the barrio into the barangay as the basic political unit. According to Mrs. Marcos:
The institution that President Marcos founded in this country was not anchored on the institution of democracy like America. Marcos anchored it on natural law, God’s fundamental law. Our democracy, perhaps the only democracy in the world anchored on natural law. The smallest unit of society is the family, and the extended family is the barangay> In our culture when we were only 51 million, we identified 42,000 barangays. Each barangay has two sets of leaders, the older and the youth. When we were only 51 million, we had 3 million elected officials. In America they don’t even have half a million and there are hundred of millions of people. That is our democracy, none like that.
The barangay as a basic political unit, became a forum for the discussion of national issues and an effective tool for Marcos to project to the world that democracy still existed in the Philippines under martial law.
Later, President Marcos established legislative councils in the provinces (Sangguniang Panlalawigan in lieu of Kapulungang Panlalawigan), cities (Sangguniang Panlungsod in lieu of hunta municipal) and municipalities (Sangguniang Pambayan). In Metro Manila, the President created the Metro Manila Commission with the First Lady as its governor.
The President divided the country into thirteen
regions with Metropolitan Manila as the National Capital Region.