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1987
MALACAAN PALACE
MANILA
(a)
Affirmative votes:
(b)
Negative Votes:
(c)
Abstentions:
16,622,111
4,953,375
209,730
A copy of the Certificate of Canvass of the Votes Cast in the Plebiscite Held on February 2, 1987, of
the Commission on Elections dated February 7, 1987 is hereto attached as Annex A of this
Proclamation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers
vested in me by the sovereign mandate of the people, do hereby proclaim that the Constitution of the
Republic of the Philippines adopted by the Constitutional Commission of 1986, including the
Ordinance appended thereto, has been duly ratified by the Filipino people and is therefore effective
and in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the
Philippines to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
and Eighty-Seven.
(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
By the President:
(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary
CERTIFICATE OF VOTES CAST IN THE FEBRUARY 2, 1987 PLEBISCITE ON THE 1986
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION
We, the undersigned Chairman and Commissioners of the Commission on Elections, sitting en banc
at the Session Hall of the Commission on Elections, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, as the National
Board of Canvassers for the Plebiscite on the 1986 proposed Constitution held on February 2, 1987
do hereby certify:
I PLEBISCITE QUESTION
That pursuant to Section 5, Article V of Proclamation No. 3 and Section 14 of Proclamation No. 9, as
amended, the following question was submitted to the Filipino people:
QUESTION: DO YOU VOTE FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF
THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES WITH THE ORDINANCE APPENDED THERETO?
II CANVASS
That on the basis of the certificates of canvass duly authenticated, certified and submitted to the
Commission on Elections by Seventy (70) Provincial Boards Of Canvassers, and six (6) District
Boards of Canvassers in , Metro Manila, we publicly canvassed, with notice to, and in the presence
of the representatives of the major political parties and the citizens arm of the Commission, the votes
cast in the Plebiscite starting at 10:00 oclock a.m. on February 4, 1987 and continuing everyday
thereafter until 4:40 oclock P.M. of February 7, 1987;
III DECLARATION OF RESULTS
That after said canvass, we hereby declare the results thereof to be as follows:
Percent
16,622,111
76.30%
Percent
4,953,375
22.74%
Abstentions
Percent
209,780
0.96%
Chairman
(Sgd.) LEOPOLDO L. AFRICA
Chairman
(Sgd.) ANACLETO D. BADOY, JR.
Chairman
(Sgd.) DARIO C. RAMA
Commissioner
(Sgd.) HAYDEE B. YORAC
Commissioner
(Sgd.) ANDRES R. FLORES
Commissioner
(Sgd.) TOMAS V. DE LA CRUZ
Commissioner
ATTESTED:
(Sgd.) VICENTE B. DE LIMA