Unopposed and unanimoulsy endorsed by the city mayors, San Fernando City, Pampanga Mayor Oscar Rodriguez is the new League of Cities of the Philippines President. He was proclaimed during the 9th Election of National Officers last July 17, 2010, Manila.

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“San Fernando City Mayor is the new LCP President”

League of Cities Website

July 15, 2010.

After more than two weeks of serving as DILG Secretary in a concurrent capacity, President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III has officially appointed a new secretary of the Department, former Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo.

Robredo took his oath of office before President Aquino last Monday in Malacañang.

Sec. Robredo is a multi-awarded local chief executive of Naga City. Under his leadership, Naga has transformed into a premier city in the Bicol Region. He was cited by Asiaweek Magazine in 1999 for transforming Naga City from a lethargic Philippine city into one of the Most Improved Cities in Asia.

He is a mechanical and industrial engineering graduate of De La Salle University and finished his Masters in Business Administration at the University of the Philippines. He is also an Edward Mason Fellow and a graduate of Masters in Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at the Harvard University.

Robredo is a 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee (Asia’s Nobel Prize) for Government Service and recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Young Persons of the World award. Now, he is in the short list of the World Mayor Prize.

Following his assumption into office, the new DILG Secretary met with key officials of the Department. In a meeting with the local government sector officials last Tuesday at the central office, he vowed to pursue programs and policies that will complement the President’s anticorruption and good governance platform.

Likewise, he held his first command conference yesterday with top officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at Camp Crame. In the said conference, Robredo made a marching order to the PNP officials to make a systematic approach to stop jueteng or the illegal numbers game.

He ordered the probe on the operations of the small town lottery (STL) and verifies reports that it was a front for the illegal numbers game “jueteng.”

He also said that the PNP would observe a “calibrated and proportionate response” in handling the cases of media and militant killings.

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