BARMM’s Chief Minister: bigger challenge is how to sustain gains of the peace process

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The bigger challenge in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is how to sustain the momentum of the peace process and let its gains be felt by every Bangsamoro people during the extended transition period until June 30, 2025, interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim said.

Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim, interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. MindaNews file photo by MANMAN DEJETO Last October 28, President Rodrigo Duterte enacted Republic Act 11593, which reset the first election in the BARMM to May 2025, effectively extending the Bangsamoro transition period from June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2025, when the first set of elected officials shall have taken their oaths of office.

Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez, Jr. lauded the Bangsamoro government for “the outstanding and inspiring work” in the past three years. Majority of the voters in the then Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao voted yes to inclusion in the BARMM, along with Cotabato City. Another plebiscite was held on February 6, 2019, to determine if residents in the six towns in Lanao del Norte and 67 villages in six North Cotabato towns which voted for inclusion in the ARMM in 2001 would vote for inclusion the BARMM.

Ebrahim earlier pushed for the extension of the transition period, noting the need for more time to fully implement the provisions of the CAB, including the normalization process. The delays triggered by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic were also among the reasons cited in asking for an extension.

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