Duterte Youth Party-list representative Ducielle Cardema filed a bill on April 11 calling to revert the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) back to its original Manila International Airport (MIA) name.
This is amid many issues the country is currently facing that require the attention of Congress, such as unemployment, hunger, the pandemic, and the damages brought upon by Typhoon Odette last December 2021.
Cardema is the sole author of the house bill, and barely explained the rationale behind the name change. The bill only had two sections.
Throughout the 18th Congress, she has only authored and co-authored a total of seven House Bills, nine House Resolutions, and one Resolution of Both Houses – the last one, she was able to partake in despite not yet being proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
Attempts to revert the name of NAIA back to MIA have been criticized by some as an attempt to revise history. The airport was named after the late Senator Ninoy Aquino Jr., one of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s staunchest critics, after the former was assassinated as soon as he arrived in Manila.
In 2018, Rodrigo Duterte supporting lawyer Larry Gadon asked the high court to nullify the three-decade-old law which became the legal basis for the renaming of the airport. His petition was junked for lack of merit.
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