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MANILA, Philippines - Fourteen of 18 surviving members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission believe the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) can fulfill the vision and spirit that guided the original 48 framers of the Constitution to draft the provision on autonomous regions. The 14 are Felicitas Aquino-Arroyo, retired Supreme Court (SC) justice Adolfo Azcuna, Bishop Teodoro Bacani, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, Florangel Rosario Braid, retired chief justice Hilario Davide Jr., Edmundo Garcia, Jose Luis Martin Gascon, retired elections chairman Christian Monsod, Ricardo Romulo, retired election commissioner Rene Sarmiento, Jaime Tadeo, Wilfrido Villacorta and Bernardo Villegas. “Reason tells us that Bangsamoro Autonomous Region can close the centuries-old gap between law and justice and that we are on the cusp of a historic opportunity to make it happen,” they said. The 14 surviving framers of the Constitution lamented that negotiations on the peace agreement have dragged on for 17 years, and that even after nearly three decades since the approval and implementation of the Constitution, “the promise of genuine social change has not unfolded.” They cited a report defining the Bangsamoro as a historically and culturally separate nation. Its fusion with the majority of Filipinos is “workable only under a framework of political autonomy,” they added.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:30:39 +0000

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