Ecija governor Aurelio Umali was decided. On April 22, 2014, the Supreme Court ordered COMELEC to include the rest of Nueva Ecija in the plebiscite, given that the province's income will be significantly affected once Cabanatuan attains autonomy as an HUC. COMELEC subsequently rescheduled the expanded plebiscite for November 8, 2014. However, on October 21 COMELEC issued Minute Resolution No. 14-0732, which suspended the voting until the city government of Cabanatuan provides the 101 million needed to administer the expanded plebiscite. Downgrading Highly urbanized city to component city Reclassifying an HUC as a component city likely involves not only amending the concerned city's charter, but also the Local Government Code, as currently there is no provision in the LGC that allows this, nor are there any precedents. Some Cebu City politicians have previously indicated that they wish to bring back the city under the province's control, in order to bring in more votes against the Sugbuak, the proposed partition of Cebu Province. Independent component city to component city A congressional amendment to the city charter enabling city residents to vote for provincial officials is required, followed by a plebiscite. Santiago's status as an independent component city was briefly in question after the enactment of Republic Act No. 8528 on February 14, 1998, which sought to make it a regular component city. The Supreme Court on September 16, 1999, however ruled in favor of the city's mayor who contended that such a change in the status of the city required a plebiscite just like any other merger, division, abolition or alteration in boundaries of any political unit. And due to the lack of a plebiscite to affirm such a change, RA 8528 was therefore unconstitutional. Amendments On April 10, 2022, the Republic Act No. 11683 lapses into law which seeks to ease conversion of towns into cities but was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on April 11, 2022. The new cityhood law amends Section 450 of Republic Act 7160 also known as the Local Government Code of 1991 where a municipality will be exempted from the land and population requirements if it generates at least 100 million pesos for two consecutive years. League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) is a non-profit organization and is not a government agency and was founded in 1988. As of December 17, 2022, the league has a