Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Metro Manila===
In 1975, Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 824, placing the four cities and thirteen municipalities near the [[Manila (province)|Province of Manila]] under the administration of the Metro Manila Commission (MMC).<ref name="PD824">{{cite web|website=The LawPhil Project|url=http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1975/pd_824_1975.html|title=Presidential Decree No. 824 November 7, 1975. Creating the Metropolitan Manila and the Metropolitan Manila Commission and for Other Purposes|date=November 7, 1975|publisher=[[Arellano University School of Law|Arellano Law Foundation]]|access-date=March 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312121648/http://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1975/pd_824_1975.html|archive-date=March 12, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

The appointed head of the MMC was called a "governor".<ref name="notmmc">{{cite news|last=Cruz|first=Elfren|title=MMDA is NOT MMC|url=https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/10/31/1517031/mmda-not-mmc|access-date=July 31, 2018|work=[[The Philippine Star|Philstar.com]]|date=October 31, 2015}}</ref> Marcos appointed Imelda as governor in 1976.<ref name="ButterfieldGov">{{Cite news|last=Butterfield|first=Fox|date=February 24, 1976|title=Governorship of Manila Is Increasing Powers of Imelda Marcos|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/24/archives/governorship-of-manila-is-increasing-powers-of-imelda-marcos.html|access-date=June 11, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The governorship was the republic's second most powerful office. Metro Manila then accounted for around 20% of the country's population and at least 70% of GDP. Its budget is second to the national government.<ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=Section "One author" tag has been addressed through the addition of other sources, but editor who put this tag on identified this reference as "partisan". Information is not uncommon so a better source may be desirable.|date=June 2020}} This increase in Imelda's political power led [[Carlos P. Romulo]] to describe her as the Philippines' "de facto vice president".<ref name="ButterfieldGov" />