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The Elections for the Second National Assembly were held on November 8 1938 under a new law that allowed block voting which favored the governing Nacionalista Party (which the Consolidato and the Pro-Independencia factions reconciled). As expected all the 98 seats of the National Assembly went to the Nacionalistas. Jose Yulo who was Quezon’s Secretary of Justice from 1934 to 1938 was elected Speaker.

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