(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will push for Congress to enact a law that will ban all firecrackers and pyrotechnics.
This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who spoke in a press conference on Tuesday.
According to Roque, the topic was among those discussed during a Cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon.
“(The President) wants Congress to enact this law at the soonest time possible so that the public debate on the banning of fireworks and pyrotechnics could begin as early as possible,” Roque said.
As for the around 75,000 who are expected to be displaced by the firecracker ban, Roque said that the President has already asked the Department of Trade and Industry to look for other livelihood options for them.
On June 20, Duterte signed Executive Order No. 28 that limits the use of firecrackers to that of a “community fireworks display.”
The Department of Health attributed the overall 27 percent decrease in firecracker-related injuries to the issuance of the executive order, among others.