President Benigno Aquino III has Celia Anna Feria, Chief of Presidential Protocol, as the new ambassador to Spain.
Feria’s appointment papers were transmitted to Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and the Commission on Appointments on Dec. 29, 2015.
“Pursuant to the provisions of Section 16, Article VII of the Constitution and existing laws, you are hereby nominated as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Spain with concurrent jurisdiction over the Principality of Andorra,” said the appointment letter signed by Aquino.
Feria’s appointment is subject to the confirmation of the CA.
Aquino appointed Feria as chief of the presidential protocol in September 2013.
Other appointees includes Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Executive Director Roberto Cabrera III as the new chief of the Land Transportation Office.
Cabrera replaced Alfonso Tan Jr. who resigned effective Monday.
Abaya said Tan voluntarily resigned November last year due to “family reasons.”
Tan replaced the late LTO Chief Virginia “Virgie” Torres in 2013, and served the agency for three years.
Cabrera, who was appointed executive director of the LTFRB also in 2013, faces challenges over the backlog of driver’s license as well as a regional trial court ruling stopping a supply contract between LTO and suppliersl
Tan, an appointee of then Transportation Secretary Manual Roxas II, had been LTO chief since September 2011 when he replaced Torres.
Earlier on Dec. 22, Aquino appointed Adrian S. Cristobal, Jr. as Trade and Industry Secretary, replacing Gregory Domingo.
Cristobal served as DTI Undersecretary for International Trade in 2010.
Cristobal obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in the United States and his Juris Doctor of Laws at Ateneo de Manila University.
Domingo, who has expressed his intentions to go back to the private sector, resigned in September.
