Members of 15-man transition body to be named before yearend

From Business World (Dec 18): Members of 15-man transition body to be named before yearend

The composition of the 15-man Transition Commission is expected to be completed before the year ends following its creation by presidential fiat. President Benigno S. C. Aquino III on Monday issued Executive Order No. 120 that created the commission which will have seven members from the government and eight from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), including the chairman.

 MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said in an interview yesterday that the members of the MILF contingent "would be released soon." For her part, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Q. Deles said in a statement that the executive order "affirms the President’s resolve to move forward the peace process for the Bangsamoro as a strategic initiative for political stability and economic development."

In the same statement, government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said the commission will craft a law for the new region that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. "The aim is to install the Bangsamoro through a new organic act as soon as possible in order to have an elected Bangsamoro government by 2016," she said. "This does not prevent the TC (transition commission) or its members from examining the constitution and recommending constitutional reforms." The transition body will ensure that the shift to the new political system will be orderly.

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