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Diosdado P. Macapagal: Prepared By: Jannibee L. Estrera BSA-2

Diosdado Macapagal was the 9th President of the Philippines. He was born in 1910 in a poor family in Pampanga. As President, he implemented an Agricultural Land Reform Code to establish family-sized farms and improve the status of farmers. He also changed the country's Independence Day celebration from July 4th to June 12th to recognize the date of Philippine independence proclaimed by Emilio Aguinaldo in 1898.

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Diosdado P. Macapagal: Prepared By: Jannibee L. Estrera BSA-2

Diosdado Macapagal was the 9th President of the Philippines. He was born in 1910 in a poor family in Pampanga. As President, he implemented an Agricultural Land Reform Code to establish family-sized farms and improve the status of farmers. He also changed the country's Independence Day celebration from July 4th to June 12th to recognize the date of Philippine independence proclaimed by Emilio Aguinaldo in 1898.

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DIOSDADO P.

MACAPAGAL
9th President of the Philippines.

Prepared by: Jannibee L. Estrera


BSA-2
Early life

Diosdado Macapagal was born on September 28, 1910,


in Lubao, Pampanga, the third of five children in a poor
family. His father was Urbano Macapagal y Romero (c. 1883 –
1946),[2] a poet who wrote in the local Pampangan
language and his mother wasRomana Pangan Macapagal.

Diosdado is a distant descendant of Don Juan Macapagal, a


prince of Tondo, who was a great-grandson of the last
reigning Lakan of the Kingdom of Tondo, Lakan Dula.
Won the election on 1961 under the Liberal
Party as a President.
Promised to solve the problems of
unemployment and promote self-sufficiency
in food production
He promised to set an example of honesty,
uprightness, and simple living.
Macapagal presidency

Land reform code

Change of independence day celebration


from july 4 to june 12.
Agricultural Land Reform Code
To establish and encourage the formation of family-sized farms as the
basis of Phil. Agri.
To improve the status of the farmers by freeing them from pernicious
practices such as exorbitant rates of interest for loans
To encourage bigger productivity to increase the income of small
farmers
To apply all labor laws to all irrespective of their status in life
To provide a land settlement program and the distribution of land
To make poor farmers independent, self reliant, and responsible
citizens in order to strengthen the Phil.democratic society.
Independence Day

The nationalists praised Macapagal’s move,


for the truth, Philippine independemce was
proclaimed by Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898.
The one proclaimed in july 4 was made not by
the Filipino president, but by the US president
Truman.
Thank you

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