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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 15, slammed House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr.’s statement the Department of Budget and Management had failed to set aside funds for the conduct of a plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Andaya’s statement was “misplaced” and “without basis” in the first place. “There are funds for the plebiscite,” Panelo said of the event, which is slated on Jan. […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will attend on Friday, Jan. 18, an assembly aimed at urging support for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the announcement in a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 15. “Well, certainly the voice of the President is always a powerful influence on whatever matter he gives his voice into,” Panelo said. More than 2 million voters are slated to participate in the plebiscite for […]
(Eagle News) — The plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law will be on January 21, 2019. This is according to Commission on Elections spokesperson James Jimenez, who issued a statement on Wednesday, Sept. 5. According to Jimenez, special registration activities would be conducted in Bangsamoro “core territories” from Sept. 11 to 13, 2018. The plebiscite period, on the other hand, was from Dec. 7, 2018 to Feb. 5, 2019. The campaign period for […]
(Eagle News) — Tuesday’s bombing in Sultan Kudarat is proof that “neither martial law nor the Bangsamoro Organic Law could guarantee peace in Mindanao,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Thursday, Aug. 30. As such, Lacson said the National Security Council and ground security forces should “take a hard look at their security plans and strategy, especially in the South, and try to avert the vicious cycle of talking peace with one tribal group while alienating the others.” […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, August 6, led the ceremonial turn-over of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) in Malacanang. In his speech, the President urged all Filipinos to support the BOL, saying that this law will help “preserve our bond as a single nation.” “Let us work together as we continue the healing and reconciliation process,” he said as he called on Filipinos to “give this law a chance.” He also […]
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao–Members or supporters of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group gathered in their tens of thousands on Sunday to discuss the landmark Bangsamoro Organic Law granting them autonomy, with one expressing hope it would make their “dream of peace” a reality. President Rodrigo Duterte last week signed the law, a key step to ending a Muslim rebellion in the south that had claimed about 150,000 lives since the 1970s. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members, supporters […]
(Eagle News)—-The United Nations on Friday, July 27, lauded the signing of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, calling it a “landmark achievement.” “The Secretary-General welcomes the signing into law of the Organic Law for Bangsamoro in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on 26 July, a landmark achievement on the road to lasting peace in southern Philippines,” a statement released by the spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres said. The statement said the Secretary-General also “congratulates […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the proposed Bangsamoro Organic Law. The President made the announcement in a speech on Thursday, July 26. “Nur, if you are my brother, Nur, if you are listening, I would like to thank you for just narerendahan mo ‘yung pwersa mo. Let us talk because we are old. Fighting is no longer an option for you and for me. Usap na lang tayo,” the President said, referring to the […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 24, ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the Bangsamoro Organic Law. The ratification was done by the body that is now under the leadership of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Arroyo replaced Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez as Speaker on Monday, July 23, the day President Rodrigo Duterte held his State of the Nation Address. Arroyo said she would carry out the “legislative agenda” of Duterte, […]
(Eagle News) — Newly-installed Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she intends to ratify the Bangsamoro Organic Law on Tuesday, July 24. Speaking to reporters at the Batasang Pambansa a day after she was installed as Speaker, Arroyo said the ratification of the BOL, which was delayed over the events in the House of Representatives that led to the ouster of Pantaleon Alvarez, “must” push through as part of her “primary specific objective to carry out the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to sign a measure creating the Bangsamoro within 48 hours. “When the approved version is received by my office, the law has been passed actually, and give me 48 hours to sign it and ratify the law,” he said. He said in his State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 23, that he would read the measure before he signs, “baka may isiningit kayo dyan na hindi maganda […]
