From the MILF Website (Apr 21): Basic Law Complicated
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The proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) was finally completed and adopted in plenary by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) on April 20.
The proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) was finally completed and adopted in plenary by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) on April 20.
Six days after it transmitted the first formally adopted part of the BBL, the Commission is set to submit immediately the full text of the proposed BBL to the Office of the President (OP).
BTC Chairman Mohagher Iqbal told his fellow commissioners and selected guests that with the signing of the BBL they have overcome the “greatest challenge of the Commission”.
“It is not a perfect basic law since there is no such thing as a perfect basic law,” Iqbal said. He emphasized though the BBL “has passed through all levels of deliberations and decision-making which are transparent and democratic.”
All the 13 commissioners who were present affixed their signatures to the proposed BBL after explaining their votes.
Conspicuously absent though were two lady commissioners from the government side --- Johaira Wahab and Fatmawati Salapuddin. Neither sent any official explanation of their absence to the historic adoption of the BBL.
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Since the BBL would now be transmitted to the OP, Iqbal expressed the view that their engagement with the OP as “not worrisome”. “The Government and the MILF, after the signing of the CAB, are partners and therefore the engagement is one of problem-solving and partnership,” he explained.
“We believe in the trustworthiness of the President to deliver the BBL as his legacy to the nation in distress for more than our decades,” he stressed in his message.
A rally of support was held by civil society organizations outside the BTC office during the 5-hour plenary deliberations and voting.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/938-basic-law-complicated
BTC Chairman Mohagher Iqbal told his fellow commissioners and selected guests that with the signing of the BBL they have overcome the “greatest challenge of the Commission”.
“It is not a perfect basic law since there is no such thing as a perfect basic law,” Iqbal said. He emphasized though the BBL “has passed through all levels of deliberations and decision-making which are transparent and democratic.”
All the 13 commissioners who were present affixed their signatures to the proposed BBL after explaining their votes.
Conspicuously absent though were two lady commissioners from the government side --- Johaira Wahab and Fatmawati Salapuddin. Neither sent any official explanation of their absence to the historic adoption of the BBL.
Since the BBL would now be transmitted to the OP, Iqbal expressed the view that their engagement with the OP as “not worrisome”. “The Government and the MILF, after the signing of the CAB, are partners and therefore the engagement is one of problem-solving and partnership,” he explained.
“We believe in the trustworthiness of the President to deliver the BBL as his legacy to the nation in distress for more than our decades,” he stressed in his message.
A rally of support was held by civil society organizations outside the BTC office during the 5-hour plenary deliberations and voting.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/938-basic-law-complicated