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Cordillera Broad Coalition vs. Commission on Audit

CORDILLERA BROAD COALITION, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON AUDIT, respondent.

G.R. No. 79956 | 1990-01-29

D E C I S I O N


CORTES, J:

In these consolidated petitions, the constitutionality of Executive Order No. 220, dated July 15, 1987, which created the Cordillera Administrative Region, is assailed on the primary ground that it pre-empts the enactment of an organic act by the Congress and the creation of the autonomous region in the Cordilleras conditional on the approval of the act through a plebiscite.

Relative to the creation of autonomous regions, the Constitution, in Article X, provides:

AUTONOMOUS REGIONS

Sec. 15. There shall be created autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and in the Cordilleras consisting of provinces, cities,...