VM Garcia to assume acting mayoral role amid Rama's suspension

THE Department of the Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas has ordered Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia to “immediately” exercise powers and functions of a local chief executive in an acting capacity following Mayor Michael Rama’s preventive suspension.

Garcia, in a phone interview on Saturday, May 11, 2024, confirmed that he already received a memorandum from the DILG that advised him to take responsibility for the local chief executive.He said he received a call from the DILG on Friday, telling him to take command.Garcia said by virtue of succession, especially in times of the incapacity of the incumbent mayor, and by the time he received the memorandum, he is now the mayor of Cebu City.

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