Imelda left for the United States by PAL [Philippine Airlines] at 6:30 PM and Imee and I are left alone at the palace.
This morning I spent with the governors and city mayors who insisted that the voting by the citizens assemblies (barangays) was ratification of the new constitutions. I submitted the matter to a vote and it was unanimous. But no ad interim assembly.
So I have to break the bad news to the members of Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
Official Gazette for January 16, 1973: SOME 120 provincial governors and city mayors informed the President that the people had voted “almost unanimously” during the Jan. 10-15 referendum to have the new Constitution considered ratified. The local executives who reported the results of the referendum made through meetings of some 35,000 citizens assemblies and barangays, also informed the President that the people have spoken overwhelmingly for the continuation of the present policies of the administration.
BRIG. GEN. Fidel V. Ramos, PC chief, appealed to all lawless elements in eight provinces and nine cities in the South to take advantage of Presidential Decree No. 95 granting selective amnesty. Gen. Ramos told those affected by the selective amnesty decree that they have until Feb. 28 to return to the folds of the law. After Feb. 28, Gen. Ramos said, the full force of the military will be sent out to track them down. Affected by the decree are lawless elements in the provinces of Cotabato, South Cotabato, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Sulu and Palawan, and the cities of Cotabato, Gen. Santos, Iligan, Marawi, Zamboanga, Pagadian, Basilan, Dipolog and Dapitan.
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