PANGASINAN -- Malacañang has declared April 5 a special non-working day in Pangasinan, including Dagupan City as the province celebrates its 442nd Founding Anniversary.
By authority of President Rodrigo Duterte, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea signed Proclamation No. 1134 on March 29 declaring April 5 as a special day in the province.
“It is fitting and proper that the people of the province of Pangasinan be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies, subject to public health measures of the national government,” the proclamation states.
The province used to celebrate Pangasinan Day every November 15th to commemorate the birth anniversary of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives Eugenio Perez, being the first Speaker of the House from Pangasinan.
Perez’s birth date was declared a special non-working holiday in the entire province every year in 1990.
The declaration of Pangasinan’s foundation day on April 5, 1580 as a special non-working day in the province was approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan through Provincial Ordinance No. 143-2010.