Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:43:40 +0000
The majority of Mindanao residents voted for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), an unofficial tally of votes showed on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:23:09 +0000
A decadeslong push to halt the violence that has claimed more than 120,000 lives in Mindanao culminated on Monday with a vote on giving the nation’s Muslim minority greater control over the region. The plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), the charter of the proposed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao […]
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:28:59 +0000
The Commission on Elections expects a turn out of not lower than 60 percent in Monday’s plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:25:39 +0000
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expects up to 75-percent voter turnout in Monday’s plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), the final step in the peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and, it is hoped, the advent of lasting peace and progress in war-torn Mindanao.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:23:02 +0000
LUCENA CITY — Exiled Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Sunday said President Rodrigo Duterte was setting the stage for a bigger conflict in Mindanao by vigorously campaigning for ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL). Malacañang countered that Sison was talking about a local issue that he knew nothing about. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:22:39 +0000
Several technical glitches marred the mock polls organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday for the May 13 elections, according to poll watchdog group Kontra Daya.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:31:02 +0000
Contrary to reports, the Comelec did not declare any election hotpots in Sulu and Basilan. The focus instead for Monday’s plebisicte on the Bangsamoro Organic Law will be on Cotabato City due to New Year’s Eve bombing of a mall that killed two people and injured 34 others.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:01:01 +0000
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Sunday appealed for a “peaceful” Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:36:28 +0000
Malacañan Palace is “hopeful” that the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) will be ratified, presidential spokesperson Salavador Panelo said in a statement issued on Sunday, the eve of the plebiscite on the proposed measure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:48:24 +0000
The Moro islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will begin to decommission thousands of weapons after the ratification of the law that will establish broader autonomy for Muslims in Mindanao
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