National Assembly (Second Philippine Republic)

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The National Assembly was the legislature of the Second Philippine Republic, from September 25, 1943 to February 2, 1944.

Half of the membership of the assembly consisted of provincial governors or city mayors acting in an ex officio capacity, while the other half were indirectly elected through local conventions of KALIBAPI members during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.^[1]

Sessions

First Special Session: September 25, 1943
Second Special Session: October 17 – October 23, 1943
Regular Session: November 25, 1943 – February 2, 1944

Legislation

The National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic passed a total of 66 laws: Act No. 1 to 66.^[2]

Major legislation

Act No. 1 – Creation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Leadership

President

President of the Second Philippine Republic:

José P. Laurel (KALIBAPI)

National Assembly

Speaker:

Benigno S. Aquino (KALIBAPI, Tarlac)

Floor Leader:

Francisco Zulueta (KALIBAPI, Bacolod City)

Members

The assembly consisted of 108 members from 46 provinces and 8 chartered cities. The provinces of Batanes and Marinduque, and the cities of Dansalan (now Marawi), Quezon City, Tagaytay and Zamboanga were not represented separately in the assembly. Romblon, having been abolished as a province and re-organized into four special municipalities in 1940 by virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 581, was also not represented separately.

Province/City	Representative	Party
Abra	Quintin Paredes, Jr.	KALIBAPI
Abra	Juan C. Brillantes	KALIBAPI
Agusan	Elisa R. Ochoa	KALIBAPI
Agusan	Ramon Z. Aguirre	KALIBAPI
Albay	Pio Duran	KALIBAPI
Albay	Mariano A. Locsin	KALIBAPI
Antique	Alberto A. Villavert	KALIBAPI
Antique	Tobias Fornier	KALIBAPI
Bacolod City	Francisco Zulueta	KALIBAPI
Bacolod City	Alfredo C. Yulo	KALIBAPI
Baguio City	Florendo Aquino	KALIBAPI
Baguio City	Nicasio S. Valderrosa	KALIBAPI
Bataan	Joaquin J. Linao	KALIBAPI
Bataan	Simeon D. Salonga	KALIBAPI
Batangas	José B. Laurel, Jr.	KALIBAPI
Batangas	Maximo M. Malvar	KALIBAPI
Bohol	Vicente P. Bullecer	KALIBAPI
Bohol	Agapito Hontanosas	KALIBAPI
Bulacan	Jacinto Molina	KALIBAPI
Bulacan	Emilio Rustia	KALIBAPI
Bukidnon	Pedro Carrillo	KALIBAPI
Bukidnon	Antonio Rubin	KALIBAPI
Cagayan	Melecio Arranz	KALIBAPI
Cagayan	Nicanor Carag	KALIBAPI
Camarines Norte	Trinidad P. Zenarosa	KALIBAPI
Camarines Norte	Carlos Ascutia	KALIBAPI
Camarines Sur	Jose T. Fuentebella	KALIBAPI
Camarines Sur	Andres T. Hernandez	KALIBAPI
Capiz	Eduardo Abalo	KALIBAPI
Capiz	Alfredo V. Jacinto	KALIBAPI
Cavite	Emiliano Tria Tirona	KALIBAPI
Cavite	Luis Y. Ferrer	KALIBAPI
Cavite City	Demetrio B. Encarnacion	KALIBAPI
Cavite City	Ricardo Poblete	KALIBAPI
Cebu	Jose S. Leyson	KALIBAPI
Cebu	Jose Delgado	KALIBAPI
Cebu City	Paulino Gullas	KALIBAPI
Cebu City	Juan C. Zamora	KALIBAPI
Cotabato	Menandang Piang	KALIBAPI
Cotabato	Alfonso A. Pablo	KALIBAPI
Davao	Juan A. Sarenas	KALIBAPI
Davao	Romualdo C. Quimpo	KALIBAPI
Davao City	Celestino Chavez	KALIBAPI
Davao City	Alfonso G. Oboza	KALIBAPI
Ilocos Norte	Conrado Rubio	KALIBAPI
Ilocos Norte	Emilio L. Medina	KALIBAPI
Ilocos Sur	Fidel Villanueva	KALIBAPI
Ilocos Sur	Alejandro Quirolgico	KALIBAPI
Iloilo	Cirilo Mapa, Jr.	KALIBAPI
Iloilo	Fermin C. Caram	KALIBAPI
Iloilo City	Fortunato R. Ybiernas	KALIBAPI
Iloilo City	Vicente R. Ybiernas	KALIBAPI
Isabela	Gregorio P. Formoso	KALIBAPI
Isabela	Lino J. Castillejos	KALIBAPI
La Union	Rufino N. Macagba	KALIBAPI
La Union	Bonifacio Tadiar	KALIBAPI
Laguna	Marcelo P. Zorilla	KALIBAPI
Laguna	Jesus Bautista	KALIBAPI
Lanao	Datu Bato Ali	KALIBAPI
Lanao	Ciriaco B. Raval	KALIBAPI
Leyte	Jose Ma. Veloso	KALIBAPI
Leyte	Bernardo Torres	KALIBAPI
Manila	Alfonso E. Mendoza	KALIBAPI
Manila	Leon G. Guinto	KALIBAPI
Masbate	Emilio B. Espinosa	KALIBAPI
Masbate	Pio V. Corpus	KALIBAPI
Mindoro	Raul T. Leuterio	KALIBAPI
Mindoro	Felipe S. Abeleda	KALIBAPI
Misamis Occidental	Rufino Jaca Abadies	KALIBAPI
Misamis Occidental	P. M. Stewart del Rosario	KALIBAPI
Misamis Oriental	Isidro Vamenta	KALIBAPI
Misamis Oriental	Jose Artadi	KALIBAPI
Mountain Province	Florencio Bagwan	KALIBAPI
Mountain Province	Hilary P. Clapp	KALIBAPI
Negros Occidental	Gil M. Montilla	KALIBAPI
Negros Occidental	Vicente F. Castillo	KALIBAPI
Negros Oriental	Julian L. Teves	KALIBAPI
Negros Oriental	Guillermo Z. Villanueva	KALIBAPI
Nueva Ecija	Hermogenes Concepcion	KALIBAPI
Nueva Ecija	Jose Robles, Jr.	KALIBAPI
Nueva Vizcaya	Guillermo E. Boñgolan	KALIBAPI
Nueva Vizcaya	Demetrio Quirino	KALIBAPI
Palawan	Iñigo R. Peña	KALIBAPI
Palawan	Patricio Fernandez	KALIBAPI
Pampanga	Felix B. Bautista	KALIBAPI
Pampanga	Eligio G. Lagman	KALIBAPI
Pangasinan	Bernabe Aquino	KALIBAPI
Pangasinan	Santiago U. Estrada	KALIBAPI
Rizal	Nicanor A. Roxas	KALIBAPI
Rizal	Tomas M. Molina	KALIBAPI
Samar	Serafin S. Marabut	KALIBAPI
Samar	Cayetano Lucero	KALIBAPI
San Pablo, Laguna	Sofronio Abrera	KALIBAPI
San Pablo, Laguna	Tomas Dizon	KALIBAPI
Sorsogon	Manuel Estipona	KALIBAPI
Sorsogon	Rafael Ramos	KALIBAPI
Sulu	Gulamu Rasul	KALIBAPI
Sulu	Ombra Amilbangsa	KALIBAPI
Surigao	Jose D. Cortez	KALIBAPI
Surigao	Fernando C. Silvosa	KALIBAPI
Tarlac	Benigno S. Aquino, Sr.	KALIBAPI
Tarlac	Sergio L. Aquino	KALIBAPI
Tayabas	Tomas B. Morato	KALIBAPI
Tayabas	Natalio A. Enriquez	KALIBAPI
Zambales	Valentin S. Afable	KALIBAPI
Zambales	Francisco Dantes	KALIBAPI
Zamboanga	Juan S. Alano	KALIBAPI
Zamboanga	Agustin L. Alvarez	KALIBAPI

Note: List is according to the National Assembly Yearbook 1943.^[3] and the Official program of the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines and the induction into office of His Excellency Jose P. Laurel.^[4] The name in italics is the ex officio member (i.e., city mayor or provincial governor).

References

↑ Ramirez, Efren V. (1969). Philippine Government (For College Students). E. Q. Cornejo. p. 94.
↑ Upon the disestablishment of the Second Philippine Republic, all acts passed by its National Assembly were deemed invalid and not binding.
↑ National Library of the Philippines - Catalog Labeled Display: National Assembly Yearbook. Accessed on May 8, 2007.
↑ Official program of the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines and the induction into office of His Excellency Jose P. Laurel. Bureau of Printing. 1943.

Legislative periods of the Philippines

List Congress Senate House of Representatives

Revolutionary Period	Malolos Congress (1898–99)

American Period	1st Philippine Commission (1899–1900) 2nd Philippine Commission (1900–07) 1st Philippine Legislature (1907–09) 2nd Philippine Legislature (1909–12) 3rd Philippine Legislature (1912–16) 4th Philippine Legislature (1916–19) 5th Philippine Legislature (1919–22) 6th Philippine Legislature (1922–25) 7th Philippine Legislature (1925–28) 8th Philippine Legislature (1928–31) 9th Philippine Legislature (1931–34) 10th Philippine Legislature (1934–35)

Commonwealth	1st National Assembly (1935–1938) 2nd National Assembly (1938–1941)

Second Philippine Republic	National Assembly (1943–44)

Commonwealth	1st Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1945) 2nd Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1946)

Third Philippine Republic	1st Congress (1946–49) 2nd Congress (1949–53) 3rd Congress (1954–57) 4th Congress (1958–61) 5th Congress (1962–65) 6th Congress (1966–69) 7th Congress (1970–72)

Fourth Philippine Republic	Interim Batasang Pambansa (1978–84) Regular Batasang Pambansa (1984–86)

Fifth Philippine Republic	8th Congress (1987–92) 9th Congress (1992–95) 10th Congress (1995–98) 11th Congress (1998–2001) 12th Congress (2001–04) 13th Congress (2004–07) 14th Congress (2007–10) 15th Congress (2010–2013) (members) 16th Congress (2013–16)

Malolos Congress Philippine Commission Philippine Legislature Commonwealth National Assembly Second Republic National Assembly Commonwealth Congress Batasang Pambansa

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