LTO announced on Friday that it would extend the validity of driver’s licenses expiring from April 24 to October 31 and waive all penalties arising from late renewal. CDNDigital
“Many of our countrymen have already spoken,” Assistant Secretary Jose Arturo Tugade, head of the LTO, said in a video message sent to the media.
As a stopgap solution, the LTO announced on Thursday that the agency would issue temporary licenses on paper, but netizens complained that such identification documents are not acceptable for certain uses. “The inconvenience hounding our motorists due to the unavailability of the license cards defeats the purpose of the law,” Poe, who sponsored in the Senate Republic Act No. 10930, which became law in 2017.
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