It's surprising to realize that Manila owns the South Cemetery in Makati and once owned the property that has been the New Bilibid Prison since the late 1930s. Manila technically regained its status as capital in 1976, but not really: Its briefly reclaiming the distinction from Quezon City in 1976 was part of the image-building of the dictatorship which then stripped the designation of meaning in 1978, when Metro Manila was designated the National Capital Region. Under Fidel Ramos a capital hocus-pocus took place, with Taguig quietly being zoned as the actual capital, which explains its becoming the future home of the Supreme Court and Senate, a plan itself undermined by the proposal to move administrative functions to New Clark City, a combined legacy of the Arroyo and second Aquino administrations.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/165590/retribution-by-election

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