The Bangsamoro Law was signed on July 27, exactly 10 years after the initialling of MOA-AD

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / July 28) – Signed Friday, July 27, not Thursday or before Thursday

Malacanang released Friday afternoon copy of RA 11054 or the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OLBARMM) President Rodrigo Duterte said in two speeches Thursday that he had already signed

The law, which repeals Organic Law 6734, the organic law creating the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) such as amended by RA 9054, the signature of the President and the date of approval on Friday, July 27, 2018. (The same signature page shows four other names: Senate Speaker Vicente Sotto, Speaker of the House Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Secretary and Secretary General of the Senate and Curiously, there is no signature above the name of Arroyo)

It is not known at what time RA 11054 was signed. From Zamboana City on Thursday, the president returned to Davao City that evening and Friday afternoon visited fire survivors and wounded soldiers in Jolo, Sulu. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque and President Christopher Lawrence Go's special assistant late Thursday afternoon (July 26) first stated that the Consolidated Bill 1717 and Bill 6475 n & # They had not been signed. Later in the evening, Roque said that it was signed "from 19:12" [19659002] Duterte's signature on July 27, 2018 comes exactly 10 years up to date the government's peace signs (then called GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) initialed in Kuala Lumpur the Memorandum of Understanding on the Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), on the eve of the 8th State Speech of the Nation (SONA) by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Duterte, The first president of Mindanawon was supposed to have signed OLBARMM on July 23, on his third SONA, but only the Senate managed to ratify the consolidated bill and finalized by the Committee of the Bicameral Conference on the Bangsamoro Basic Bill. The House of Representatives failed to do so Monday because of a leader line, but did so on Tuesday.

The President promised during his SONA that he would sign "within 48 hours" from the moment his office receives a copy. The representative of Maguindanao and Vice President of Mindanao Bai Sandra Sema, said that the office of the President received a copy at 19:30. On July 25, Sema posted on his Facebook page shortly after 5pm. on July 27, a copy of the last page of RA 11054 with Duterte's signature and the letters of transmission of the signed law to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Senate Speaker Vicente Sotto. Sema did not say why Arroyo's signature is missing.

According to the legislative process in Congress, "copies of the bill, signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and certified by the Secretary of the Senate and the Secretary General of the House, are transmitted to the President "for his signature.

In his speeches in the city of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga The city of Duterte Thursday announced that he had signed the law, but his spokesman and special deputy said that "I have not signed the law. he did not do it. This caused confusion and even triggered a war of words among supporters and critics of the measure. The OLBARMM was known as the Bangsamoro Basic Law and is now called "Bangsamoro Organic Law" or "BOL" by some areas

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The MOA-AD Initialed in July August 27, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur was supposed to be officially signed on August 5, 2008 but the Supreme Court issued a provisional provisional order the day before, with the exception of the Chairman of the Government Peace Panel, then the General at Retirement Rodolfo Garcia the peace process Hermogenes Esperon, also a retired general, to formally sign it.

In October 2008, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 8-7, declared the MOA-AD unconstitutional, but noted that "surely, this Memorandum of Understanding -AD may be renegotiated or another will be developed to implement the aspect of the ancestral domain of the Tripoli Agreement of 2001, in another or in some form, which could contain similar or significantly drastic provisions. "

Peace Negotiations failed after the official signing of the MOA-AD. Hostilities resumed, displacing at least 350,000 residents between August 2008 and June 30, 2009. The government issued a suspension of military operations on July 23, 2009, reciprocated by the MILF with a suspension of military action but the Peace talks officially resumed only in December 2009, this time in the presence of the International Contact Group composed of representatives of governments and international non-governmental organizations.

But with only seven months before the end of Arroyo's tenure, the two parties were not able to sign a peace

The Aquino administration that followed (2010 to 2016) managed to forge the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement (FAB) with the MILF on October 15, 2012 and the Global Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB) on March 27, 2014

But the Aquino administration failed to adopt Bangsamoro's Basic Law that would have paved the way for the creation of a new autonomous political entity that the ARMM. The Mamasapano tragedy of January 25, 2015 in Tukanalipao, Mamasapano in Maguindanao that left 66 dead – 44 members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force, 17 members of the MILF's Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and five civilians – has turned out to be the game changer.

The new political entity that will replace the ARMM was named by RA 11054 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Bangsamoro Law Provides for Creation of BARMM as MILF Leaders MILF President, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, told MindaNews that he is "very superior to the ARMM".

A "reinforced" or "strengthened" DMAR was offered to MILF across multiple jurisdictions, but the MILF rejected the offers.

The Bangsamoro Bill drafted by the Bangsamoro Transitional Commission (BTC) consisting of 21 members nominated by the MILF and 10 by the government envi a Bangsamoro entity based on the CAB with strong power-sharing and sharing characteristics wealth to ensure true political and fiscal autonomy because the status quo – and which includes the ARMM – is "unacceptable".

Murad says that OLBARMM is "80 to 90% compliant with the ACR."

The law will enter into force 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette and in two national newspapers as well as a regional newspaper in the proposed territory of Bangsamoro.

The ARMM will be deemed abolished, however, only upon ratification of a plebiscite in January 2019. (Carolyn O Arguillas / MindaNews)

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