Review of the Local Government Code

Senator Juan Edgardo Angara (left), chair of the Committee on Local Government, presides the public hearing on the long overdue review of the Local Government Code to equally distribute growth particularly in the countryside held at the Senate in Pasay City on Monday (June 5, 2017). At right is Undersecretary Austere Panadero of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG); Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) Governor Al Francis Bichara; and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Dr. Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)