Central Executive Committee (Philippines)

The Central Executive Committee in the Philippines was an insurgent revolutionary government temporarily established by Francisco Macabulos on April 17, 1898, shortly after the December 14, 1897 signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato.[1] That pact established a truce between Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines and the revolutionary Republic of Biak-na-Bato calling for the exile of Emilio Aguinaldo and other senior revolutionaries.[2] The exiled revolutionariess formed the Hong Kong Junta, and the Central Executive Committee was intended to remain in existence the Philippines, "until a general government of the Republic in these islands shall again be established, with a constitution which provided for a President, Vice President, Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury.."[2][3] The Committee was dissolved shortly after Aguinaldo's May 19, 1898 return to the Philippines.

Central Executive Committee

1898–1898
Territory claimed by the Central Executive Committee in Asia
StatusUnrecognized state
Common languagesTagalog, Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholicism
GovernmentProvisional Government
Leader 
Historical eraPhilippine Revolution
• Established
April 17, 1898
April 21, 1898
May 1, 1898
May 19, 1898
Area
1898300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi)
CurrencyPeso
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Captaincy General of the Philippines
Republic of Biak-na-Bato
Captaincy General of the Philippines
Dictatorial Government

References
  1. Agoncillo, Teodoro A. (1960). Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic. University of the Philippines. p. 65.
  2. Agoncillo, Teodoro (1990) [1960], History of the Filipino People (Eighth ed.), R.P. Garcia Publishing Company, p. 185, ISBN 971-10-2415-2
  3. Gregorio F. Zaide (1970). Philippine Constitutional History and Constitutions of Modern Nations: With Full Texts of the Constitutions of the Philippines and Other Modern Nations. Modern Book Co. p. 17.
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