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Monday, August 3, 2020

Palace issues list of 2021 holidays

By Prince Golez

MalacaƱang released on Monday the list of regular holidays and special non-working holidays for next year.

Duterte signed on July 30 Proclamation 986, declaring 10 regular holidays and nine special non-working days.

The following regular holidays and special days for 2021 must be observed in the country:

Regular Holidays 

  • January 1 (New Year’s Day)
  • April 1 (Maundy Thursday)
  • April 2 (Good Friday)
  • April 9 (Araw ng Kagitingan)
  • May 1 (Labor Day)
  • June 12 (Independence Day)
  • August 30 (last Monday of August, National Heroes Day)
  • November 30 (Bonifacio Day)
  • December 25 (Christmas Day)
  • December 30 (Rizal Day)

Special Non-Working Days

  • February 12 (Chinese New Year)
  • February 25 (EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary)
  • April 3 (Black Saturday)
  • August 21 (Ninoy Aquino Day)
  • November 1 (All Saints’ Day)
  • December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary)
  • December 31 (Last Day of the Year)

Additional Special Non-Working Days

  • November 2 (All Souls’ Day)
  • December 24 (Christmas Eve)

Duterte also declared the observance of Eid’l Fit’r and Eid’l Adha as national holidays but the dates would be issued after “the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is possible or convenient.”



Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)

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