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EN BANC
[ G.R. NO. 166052, August 29, 2007 ]
ANAK MINDANAO PARTY-LIST GROUP, AS REPRESENTED BY REP.
MUJIV S. HATAMAN, AND MAMALO DESCENDANTS
ORGANIZATION, INC., AS REPRESENTED BY ITS CHAIRMAN
ROMY PARDI, PETITIONERS, VS. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY,
THE HON. EDUARDO R. ERMITA, AND THE SECRETARY OF
AGRARIAN/LAND REFORM, THE HON. RENE C. VILLA,
RESPONDENTS.
DECISION
CARPIO MORALES, J.:
Petitioners Anak Mindanao Party-List Group (AMIN) and Mamalo Descendants
Organization, Inc. (MDOI) assail the constitutionality of Executive Order (E.O.) Nos.
364 and 379, both issued in 2004, via the present Petition for Certiorari and
Prohibition with prayer for injunctive relief.
E.O. No. 364, which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued on September 27,
2004, reads:
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 364
TRANSFORMING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM INTO THE
DEPARTMENT OF LAND REFORM
WHEREAS, one of the five reform packages of the Arroyo administration
is Social Justice and Basic [N]eeds;
WHEREAS, one of the five anti-poverty measures for social justice is asset
reform;
WHEREAS, asset reforms covers [sic] agrarian reform, urban land reform,
and ancestral domain reform;
WHEREAS, urban land reform is a concern of the Presidential Commission
[for] the Urban Poor (PCUP) and ancestral domain reform is a concern of
the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP);
WHEREAS, another of the five reform packages of
administration is Anti-Corruption and Good Government;
the
Arroyo
WHEREAS, one of the Good Government reforms of the Arroyo
administration is rationalizing the bureaucracy by consolidating related
functions into one department;
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