AMENDING SECTION ONE OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1661, ENTITLED "PROHIBITING GUEST CANDIDACY AND PROVIDING SANCTIONS AND PENALTY THEREFOR."

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1661-A
• Sections: 3

Section 1

Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1661 there is a necessity of

amending said Section to jibe with the provisions of Sections 2 (6) and

Section 2 Effectivity.

SEC. 2. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA

Presidential Assistant

Section 10

Section 10, Article XII (C) of the Constitution.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of

the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me

by the Constitution, do hereby amend Section one of Presidential Decree

No. 1661 to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. Guest candidacy. — It shall be

unlawful for any registered or accredited political party to nominate

and/or support as its official candidate any person belonging to another

accredited or registered party unless he has affiliated with the

nominating party at least six months before the election."