President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has signed a regulation granting Philippine citizenship to American basketball participant Justin Brownlee, Senator Francis Tolentino stated Thursday.
“Yes. I am so glad that President BBM signed Republic Act 11937,” Tolentino, one of many principal authors of the regulation, advised GMA News Online when requested to verify the event.
A replica of the brand new regulation was shared by Tolentino with the media.
This got here a month after the Senate accredited House Bill 6624 on third and remaining studying with out making any amendments to the model handed by the decrease chamber.
Lawmakers expedited the passage of the measure as Brownlee is being thought-about for the lineup of Gilas Pilipinas, the nation’s nationwide workforce for males’s basketball, which is about to face Lebanon and Jordan within the sixth and remaining window of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers in February.
The Philippines, along with Japan and Indonesia, will host the FIBA World Cup in August. —VBL, GMA Integrated News
