30/07/2019 The Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines If the President-elect fails to qualify, the Vice-President-elect shall act as President until the Presidentelect shall have quali ed. If a President shall not have been chosen, the Vice-President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have been chosen and quali ed. If at the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died or shall have become permanently disabled, the Vice-President-elect shall become President. Where no President and Vice-President shall have been chosen or shall have quali ed, or where both shall have died or become permanently disabled, the President of the Senate or, in case of his inability, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall act as President until a President or a VicePresident shall have been chosen and quali ed. The Congress shall, by law, provide for the manner in which one who is to act as President shall be selected until a President or a Vice-President shall have quali ed, in case of death, permanent disability, or inability of the o cials mentioned in the next preceding paragraph. SECTION 8. In case of death, permanent disability, removal from o ce, or resignation of the President, the Vice-President shall become the President to serve the unexpired term. In case of death, permanent disability, removal from o ce, or resignation of both the President and Vice-President, the President of the Senate or, in case of his inability, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall then act as President until the President or Vice-President shall have been elected and quali ed. The Congress shall, by law, provide who shall serve as President in case of death, permanent disability, or resignation of the Acting President. He shall serve until the President or the Vice-President shall have been elected and quali ed, and be subject to the same restrictions of powers and disquali cations as the Acting President. SECTION 9. Whenever there is a vacancy in the O ce of the Vice-President during the term for which he was elected, the President shall nominate a Vice-President from among the Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives who shall assume o ce upon con rmation by a majority vote of all the Members of both Houses of the Congress, voting separately. SECTION 10. The Congress shall, at ten o’clock in the morning of the third day after the vacancy in the o ces of the President and Vice-President occurs, convene in accordance with its rules without need of a call and within seven days enact a law calling for a special election to elect a President and a VicePresident to be held not earlier than forty- ve days nor later than sixty days from the time of such call. The bill calling such special election shall be deemed certi ed under paragraph 2, Section 26, Article VI of this Constitution and shall become law upon its approval on third reading by the Congress. Appropriations for the special election shall be charged against any current appropriations and shall17/57 www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1987-constitution/