Question

What is the President’s role in the process of choosing and declaring the national artist?

Answer 1

Executive Order No. 435, s. 2005 amended Section 5 (IV) of EO 236, giving the President the power to name National Artists without need of a recommendation, relegating the NCCA and the CCP to mere advisory bodies that may or may not be [h e e d e d].

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