Section 21Sec./Art. 21

Permanent Vacancies in the Sanggunian. (a) Permanent vacancies in the sangguniang panlungsod where automatic succession as provided above does not apply shall be filled by appointment in the following manner:

(1) The President, through the Executive Secretary, shall make the aforesaid appointment;

(2) Only the nominee of the political party under which the sanggunian member concerned had been elected shall be appointed in the manner herein provided. The appointee shall come from the same political party as that of the sanggunian member who caused the vacancy and shall serve the unexpired term of the vacant office. In the appointment herein mentioned, a nomination and a certificate of membership of the appointee from the highest official of the political party concerned are conditions sine quanon, and any appointment without such nomination shall be a ground for administrative sanction against the official responsible therefore;

(3) In case the permanent vacancy is caused by a sanggunian member who does not belong to any political party, the city mayor shall, upon recommendation of the sanggunian panlungsod, appoint a qualified person to fill the vacancy; and

(4) In case of vacancy in the representation of the youth and the barangay in the sanggunian panlungsod, said vacancy shall be filled by the official next in rank of the organization concerned.