CCP president Nick Lizaso is new NCCA chair

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/life/07/06/nick-lizaso-ccp-070617.jpg"/><figcaption>Arsenio &quot;Nick&quot; Lizaso. <em>Handout/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><h2>But cultural office says no elections yet</h2><p>MANILA- Cultural Center of the Philippines president Arsenio &quot;Nick&quot; Lizaso is the new chairperson of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, a Palace document showed.</p><p>President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Lizaso to the post on Dec. 23, according to a document from Malacañang released Friday.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/12/28/pres-appointees.jpg"/></figure></div><p>In a statement, however, the NCCA said heads of the commission are elected, not appointed, citing Section 9 of Republic Act 7356, the law that created the agency.</p><p>&quot;...[T]he post of NCCA Chairman is determined through election among the members of the Board of Commissioners, not through appointment,&quot; it said.<br/> <br/>&quot;We wish to inform the public that, as of writing, the NCCA Board of Commissioners has yet to conduct their elections,&quot; the NCCA said, adding its Board of Commissioners agreed to elect a new chair in January.</p><p>It said the current the chair, National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, &quot;shall hold the position until a new chairperson for the term 2020-2022 is elected.&quot;</p><p>Before he was elected as CCP president in June 2017, Lizaso had spent over 6 decades in theater, television, and film as an actor, director, and producer.</p><p>From 1983 to 1985, Lizaso was the president of the Directors Guild of the Philippines. In 2009, he was the only Asian to be invited as a member of the jury at the sixth International Student Theater Festival in Belarus.</p><p>For his decades-long work in the arts, Lizaso was named one of the Ten Outstanding Movers of the Philippines for arts and culture this year.</p>

<p>Cultural Center of the Philippines president Arsenio "Nick" Lizaso is the new chairperson of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.</p>

Cultural Center of the Philippines president Arsenio "Nick" Lizaso is the new chairperson of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

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CCP president Nick Lizaso is new NCCA chair

CCP president Nick Lizaso is new NCCA chair

Arianne Merez,

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Published Dec 27, 2019 09:59 AM PHT

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Updated Dec 28, 2019 09:48 AM PHT

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