Batasang Bayan

Batasang Bayan
Philippines
Type
Type
Consultative
History
EstablishedSeptember 21, 1976
DisbandedJune 12, 1978
Preceded byCongress of the Philippines
Succeeded byInterim Batasang Pambansa
Seats128 members; appointive
Meeting place
Philippine International Convention Center
Footnotes
Though there were about 128 members of the Council, it is unclear how they voted on resolutions or were given voting rights at all since all law-making powers was vested with the President.

The Batasang Bayan (English: Legislative Advisory Council, lit.'Public Legislature') was the consultative assembly and legislative advisory council in the Philippines that helped formulate decrees promulgated by Ferdinand Marcos from its inauguration on September 21, 1976 to June 12, 1978.

"As such powers and functions shall consist of but not limited to assisting and advising the President of his lawmaking functions, providing a forum for the citizenry, through the herein designated representatives, to ventilate their views on national issues, as well as their opinions on the manner of administering the affairs of the government, providing a forum for the rationalization, unification, and clarification on the policies and programs of the Executive Branch of Government and providing a mechanism for actually conducting a review of the structures, policies and efficiencies of the different Barangays and Sanggunians and submit its finding and recommendations to the President as mandated by the 1973 Constitution as the Philippines shifted from a presidential to a parliamentary form of government and Presidential Decree No. 995.[1]" It held its regular and special sessions at the Philippine International Convention Center.