Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Z. Duterte recently issued Executive Order No. 15 ordering all local candidates to create their respective teams to retrieve, re-use, and recycle all local and national election paraphernalia in the City of Davao on May 10, 11 and 12, 2022.
The executive order aims at urging local candidates to be responsible in ensuring that their campaign materials must be disposed and properly managed after election day as these paraphernalia will no longer serve their purpose.
Furthermore, the collected election paraphernalia should not be thrown into the garbage bins and collection points. Instead, all paraphernalia should be recycled by the team or should be delivered to recycling centers.
Check out full content of EO No. 15 below.
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 15
Series of 2022
AN ORDER FOR ALL LOCAL CANDIDATES TO CREATE THEIR RESPECTIVE TEAMS TO RETRIEVE, RE-USE, AND RECYCLE ALL LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELECTION PARAPHERNALIA IN THE CITY OF DAVAO ON MAY 10, 11, AND 12, 2022
WHEREAS, the 2022 Philippine national and local elections will take place on May 9, 2022 for executive and legislative branches of the government, except for the barangay level;
WHEREAS, the campaign period for candidates for national positions began last February 8, 2022, while the campaign for local candidates began on March 25, 2022;
WHEREAS, the City Government urges local and national candidates to be responsible in ensuring that their campaign materials must be disposed and properly managed after election day as these paraphernalia will no longer serve their purpose;
WHEREAS, there is a need to ensure that proper disposal of these campaign materials is observed to avoid contributing to more waste products and to promote effective waste management in the city;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARA Z. DUTERTE, Mayor of the City of Davao, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order the following:
SECTION 1. PERIOD. May 10, 11, and 12, 2022 shall be retrieval days for all local and national election paraphernalia.
SECTION 2. CREATION OF CLEAN-UP TEAMS. All local candidates must create their clean-up teams and participate in the three-day activity within their district.
SECTION 3. DISPOSAL. All election paraphernalia collected during the clean- up should not be thrown into the garbage bins and collection points. All paraphernalia should be recycled by the teams or should be delivered to recycling centers.
SECTION 4. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. If any provision of this Executive Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.
SECTION 5. REPEALING CLAUSE. All Orders or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SECTION 6. EFFECTIVITY. This Order shall take effect immediately. Done this 27th day of April 2022 in Davao City, Philippines.
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SARA Z. DUTERTE
City Mayor
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ATTY. ZULEIKA T. LOPEZ
City Administrator
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