Central Executive Committee (Philippines)

{{Short description|Insurgent government in 1898}}

{{Use Philippine English|date=February 2023}}

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{{Infobox country

| native_name = {{lang|es|Comité Ejecutivo Central}}

| conventional_long_name = Central Executive Committee

| common_name =

| status = Unrecognized state

| empire =

| year_start = 1898

| date_start = April 17,

| event1 = Spanish–American War

| date_event1 = April 21, 1898

| event2 = Battle of Manila Bay

| date_event2 = May 1, 1898

| event_end = Arrival of Emilio Aguinaldo

| date_end = May 19,

| p1 = Captaincy General of the Philippines

| flag_p1 = Flag of Spain (1785-1873 and 1875-1931).svg

| p2 = Republic of Biak-na-Bato

| flag_p2 = Flag of the Biak-na-Bato.svg

| s1 = Captaincy General of the Philippines

| flag_s1 = Flag of Spain (1785-1873 and 1875-1931).svg

| s2 = Dictatorial Government of the Philippines{{!}}Dictatorial Government

| flag_s2 = Flag of the Philippines (1898–1901).svg

| image_flag = Flag of the Sovereign Tagalog Nation.svg

| flag = Flag of the Philippines

| image_coat =

| symbol_type = Seal

| image_map = Map of Philippines First Republic.png

| image_map_caption = Territory claimed by the Central Executive Committee in Asia

| legislature =

| capital = unknown

| common_languages = Tagalog, Spanish

| government_type = Provisional government

| leader_title1 = President

| leader_name1 = Francisco Macabulos

| era = Philippine Revolution

| religion = Roman Catholicism, Islam

| currency = Philippine peso

}}

The Central Executive Committee ({{langx|es|Comité Ejecutivo Central}}; in modern {{langx|fil|Komite ng Sentral na Tagapagpaganap}}) in the Philippines was an insurgent revolutionary government temporarily established by Francisco Macabulos on April 17, 1898, shortly after the December 14, 1897, signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato.{{cite book|last=Agoncillo|first=Teodoro A.|title=Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbJ6AAAAMAAJ|year=1960|publisher=University of the Philippines|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YbJ6AAAAMAAJ&q=macabulos+%22central+executive+committee%22 65]}} That pact established a truce between Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines and the revolutionary Republic of Biak-na-Bato calling for the exile of Emilio Aguinaldo and other senior revolutionaries. The exiled revolutionaries formed the Hong Kong Junta, and the Central Executive Committee was intended to remain in existence in the Philippines "until a general government of the Republic in these islands shall again be established, with a constitution which provided for a President, Vice President, Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury.."{{cite book |last=Agoncillo |first=Teodoro |authorlink=Teodoro Agoncillo |title=History of the Filipino People |year=1990 |edition=8th |origyear=First published 1960 |publisher=R.P. Garcia Publishing Company |isbn=971-10-2415-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoffilipin00teod/page/185 185] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffilipin00teod/page/185 }}{{cite book|first=Gregorio F.|last=Zaide|title=Philippine Constitutional History and Constitutions of Modern Nations: With Full Texts of the Constitutions of the Philippines and Other Modern Nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AdIjAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Modern Book Co.|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AdIjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22central+executive+committee%22+makabulos 17]}} The committee was dissolved shortly after Aguinaldo's May 19, 1898, return to the Philippines.