09 November 2005
GMA names veem Alvin to Con-Com
THE vice mayor of Dagupan City was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last Monday as the newest member of the 50-man Consultative Commission that will propose revisions to the 1987 constitution.
Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez was nominated to be a member of the commission by the Vice Mayor’s League of the Philippines (VMLP) of which he is the current national secretary-general and chapter president of the VMLP in Pangasinan. He is also the president of the Rotary Club of Dagupan.
Fernandez was informed of his appointment in a message faxed to city hall Wednesday by Presidential Management Staff chief Ribogerto Tiglao.
“I welcome my appointment and I thank President Arroyo for the trust and confidence,” said Fernandez, son of Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez, Jr., himself a former three-term mayor of Dagupan City.
Fernandez is the only vice mayor in the 50-member Commission, composed of prominent businessmen, constitutional experts, academicians, incumbent and former local officials and newspaper columnists.
The constitutional commission was created by Executive Order 453 on Aug. 19, 2005 and tasked to propose the revision of the 1987 Constitution to make it “more responsive, relevant and competitive to inward and global changes”.
The Commission, which was given a budget of P10 million, will have to submit a report to the President by the end of this year. The executive branch would then submit a report for the scrutiny and approval of Congress.
On his second term as vice mayor of Dagupan City, Fernandez also sits as member of the national executive council of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines, the umbrella organization of all local government leagues in the country.
Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez was nominated to be a member of the commission by the Vice Mayor’s League of the Philippines (VMLP) of which he is the current national secretary-general and chapter president of the VMLP in Pangasinan. He is also the president of the Rotary Club of Dagupan.
Fernandez was informed of his appointment in a message faxed to city hall Wednesday by Presidential Management Staff chief Ribogerto Tiglao.
“I welcome my appointment and I thank President Arroyo for the trust and confidence,” said Fernandez, son of Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez, Jr., himself a former three-term mayor of Dagupan City.
Fernandez is the only vice mayor in the 50-member Commission, composed of prominent businessmen, constitutional experts, academicians, incumbent and former local officials and newspaper columnists.
The constitutional commission was created by Executive Order 453 on Aug. 19, 2005 and tasked to propose the revision of the 1987 Constitution to make it “more responsive, relevant and competitive to inward and global changes”.
The Commission, which was given a budget of P10 million, will have to submit a report to the President by the end of this year. The executive branch would then submit a report for the scrutiny and approval of Congress.
On his second term as vice mayor of Dagupan City, Fernandez also sits as member of the national executive council of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines, the umbrella organization of all local government leagues in the country.
