It is normally only a school holiday for all levels, but in 2014 the Mayor of Manila and former President Joseph Estrada, for the first time in the city's history, declared it a special non-working holiday due to the impassability of some thoroughfares and projected congestion in others.
After Mayor Lacson's successful term in the fifties, the city was led by Mayor Antonio Villegas during most of the 60's, and Mayor Ramon Bagatsing for nearly the entire decade of the 70's until the 1986 Edsa revolution, making him the longest serving Mayor of Manila.
José María was born in Manila, Philippines on 5 September 1880 to Spanish parents Don Eugenio Sanz-Orozco, the last Spanish Mayor of Manila, and Doña Feliza Mortera y Camacho.
The mayor can veto proposed bills, but the council can override it with a two-thirds supermajority.
In the 2007 election, Mayor of Manila Lito Atienza was barred from seeking a fourth consecutive term; his son Ali was named nominee of the Liberal Party; then senator and former mayor Alfredo Lim was named nominee of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), Kapayapaan, Kaunlaran at Katarungan, Lim's own party and the United Opposition.
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Arsenio Lacson (1911–1962), Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila from 1952 to 1962
Most of the associated prostitution trade closed with it, but when the mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, closed down the sex industry area of Ermita in Manila during his first term starting in 1992, many of the businesses moved to Angeles, finding a new customer base among sex tourists.
In the Philippines, Alfredo Lim popularized such tactics during his term as mayor of Manila.