The development of Philippine politics

368 THE DEVELOPMEN OE PHILIPPINE POLITICS

lent to the Provincial Colleges and the Provincial Committees of the NacionaUista Party; a Grand General Assembly
and a Central Committee and a Directorate which were
the counterparts of the National Convention, the National
Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Nacionalista Party. The Grand National Assembly designated a
Central Committee composed of a member from each provincial delegation, and this central Committee elected a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary
and twelve vocales all of whom constituted the directorate
of the Central Committee of the Democrata Party.
The President of the Nacionalista Party, as we have
seen, was at the same time the Speaker of the Philippine
Assembly, the highest political position in the government,
the theory being that the leader of the Party in power should
also be the man responsible for the carrying out of the
party policies in the government. In accord, perhaps, witt
a similar theory, during the fifth legislature the President
of the Democrata Party, the Hon. Emiliano T. Tirona, was
also the minority leader in the House of Representatives.