NAIA: Solon Files Bill Proposing It To Be Renamed Ferdinand E. Marcos Int’l Airport

From NAIA to FEMIA?

Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. files a bill proposing to rename the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to Ferdinand E Marcos International Airport.

NAIA is formerly known as MIA or Manila International Airport. In 1987, through Republic Act 6639, MIA was named after the late Senator Ninoy Aquino who was assassinated at the airport four years prior.

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That was during the administration of the late President Cory Aquino, the 11th President of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos. However, reportedly, the R.A. 6639 was enacted without executive approval.

Ninoy Aquino was known as a critic of the late Marcos’s administration. His death triggered a chain of events that eventually led to the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos.

Years ago, there has been attempts to change the name of the airport to its original name but the Supreme Court junked the petition.

On June 30, Congressman Teves Jr. filed a bill seeking the name of NAIA to be changed. This was released to media on Tuesday. The lawmaker aims to name the airport after the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, based on the report from Inquirer.

Teves said in the explanatory note of House Bill No. 610 that it “is more appropriate to rename it to the person who has contributed to the idea and execution of the said noble project.”

He stressed that this project was built during the administration of the father of current President Bongbong Marcos.

It is more appropriate to bear the name that has contributed and legacy (sic) in our country to make the Philippines a center of international and domestic air travel, who has instituted and built or conceptualized the project in making pride (sic) of our country,” the lawmaker stated.

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