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PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared 20 national holidays for 2024 to allow Filipinos to plan their vacations next year.
The President, through Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, signed on Oct. 11, 2023 Proclamation 368 declaring regular holidays and special non-working days in the country.
“The proclamations declaring national holidays for the observance of Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha shall hereafter be issued after the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is possible or convenient,” the President said in his proclamation.
Under Proclamation 368, the President declared the following regular holidays:
Jan. 1 New Year’s Day
March 28 Maundy Thursday
March 29 Good Friday
April 9 Araw ng Kagitingan
May 1 Labor Day
June 12 Independence Day
Aug. 26 National Heroes Day (Last Monday of August)
Nov. 30 Bonifacio Day
Dec. 25 Christmas Day
Dec. 30 Rizal Day
The following were declared as special (non-working) days:
Aug. 21 Ninoy Aquino Day
Nov. 1 All Saints’ Day
Dec. 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mar
Dec. 31 Last Day of the Year
Additional special (non-working) days:
Feb. 10 Chinese New Year March
30 Black Saturday
Nov. 2 All Souls’ Day
Dec. 24 Christmas Eve
With this, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos is advised, at the appropriate time, to recommend to the Office of the President (OP) the actual dates on which Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha holidays will respectively fall.
The proclamation, which was released to the media on Friday, shall take effect immediately and shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation. — Catherine S. Valente
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