ILIGAN CITY—Civil society groups in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are urging President Rodrigo Duterte to certify as urgent the passage of bills seeking to move regional elections in 2022 to 2025.
The bills are aimed to extend Bangsamoro transition by another three years which was earlier requested by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA).
“The President is very important in the equation, in the spirit of institutionalizing the gains of the peace process,” said Emran Mohamad of the League of Bangsamoro Civil Society Organizations (LBO).
Duterte has earlier thrown his support behind the idea of giving the BTA another three years to accomplish t…
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