Carmona officials welcome Malacañang approval of cityhood bid

LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines --- The conversion of Carmona into a component city of Cavite province proved a welcome development for Fifth District Rep. Roy Loyola and his wife, Mayor Dahlia Loyola. On Feb. 23, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Republic Act No. 119381 mandating the town's cityhood, which the Presidential Communications Office announced the following day. "It has been 12 long years since we started our journey to cityhood," the lawmaker said in a Facebook post on Friday in which he also thanked the senators and representatives who have backed Carmona's cityhood bid --- from the 15th Congress until the 19th Congress. The mayor was also elated about the...

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