Misuari, MNLF leaders to be offered seats in transition body for peace

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Oct 10): Misuari, MNLF leaders to be offered seats in transition body for peace

The Nur Misuari-led Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) will not be left behind once the Bangsamoro autonomous political entity replaces the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as the permanent Moro homeland, according to Presidential Peace Adviser Teresita Quintos-Deles. To ensure that the MNLF is not left out in the ongoing peace process with its rival, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Aquino administration would give the MNLF seats in the Transition Commission Deles informed the Philippine Daily Inquirer during a dinner with its reporters and editors on Tuesday night. She said that the MILF itself has expressed openness to working with the MNLF in bringing about peace in war-torn parts of Mindanao. In a Palace briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda confirmed this, saying the MNLF “will not be marginalized....”

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