Coterminous Palace employees, officials extended

THE PRESIDENTIAL Palace on Monday released an order extending until Dec. 31 the term of employees and officials in the Office of the President whose appointments were coterminous with the previous administration.

The memorandum was meant “to prevent disruption in the delivery of government offices,” Executive Secretary Lucas P. Bersamin said in a memorandum order dated Sept. 27.

The appointees will remain until Dec. 31 “unless their appointments are sooner revoked, resignations accepted, replacements appointed, or reappointments issued,” according to the order, which was released on Monday.

In July, Mr. Marcos’ office issued a memorandum extending the term of office of designated officers-in-charge (OICs) of departments, agencies, and bureaus until Dec. 31 this year.

It supplemented an earlier memorandum that designated as OIC the next-in-rank and most senior official in government departments, offices, agencies, and bureaus whose heads had yet to be appointed.

Among Cabinet-level officials, Mr. Marcos has yet to appoint a secretary for the Department of Health. — Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza