The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Wednesday said
its political party is now ready to participate in any government electoral
process, one thing that the organization did not recognize since its birth.
It officially announced the formation of United Bangsamoro
Justice Party (UBJP), an MILF political organization that will campaign for the
ratification of the Bangsamoro Basic Law next year when the enabling act, now
pending in Congress, becomes a law and presented to the people in a referendum.
Sammy Al-Mansoor, UBJP secretary general, said UBJP filed
documents with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for accreditation after it
earned the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to legalize
its existence.
“We are calling a gathering of our volunteers to prove that
the UBJP is now in business,” Sammy Al-Mansoor, UBJP secretary general, told a
news conference Tuesday.
Al-Mansoor said the UBJP will gather about 25,000 volunteers
from across Mindanao “to educate them on the
country’s electoral system.”
“If we want to sustain this political party, we need to
prove that it is really existing that’s why we have this gathering,” Al-Mansoor
said of the volunteers who will serve as watchdog of UBJP during the plebiscite
in 2015 and the regional elections in the envisioned Bangsamoro government in
2016.
Majority of the volunteers are the younger generation of
Bangsamoro because, according to Al-Mansoor, they are the future of the
Bangsamoro.
Since its creation, the MILF has never directly participated
in the country’s electoral process, describing it as highly divisive and full
of electoral fraud.
But after the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the
Bangsamoro in March this year, the MILF announced it is forming its own
political party as it now subscribed to the Philippine’s democratic process.
Mohaqher Iqbal, MILF chief negotiator and chair of the
Bangsamoro Transition Commission, said in a recent interview that the UBJP has
its own vision-mission and will affiliate itself with any national political
party.
He admitted that some incumbent politicians allied with
other political organizations in the country have expressed desire to be part
of UBJP, a party that is “principled.”
Iqbal said anybody within the envisioned territory can be
part of the UBJP provided they will subscribed to the party’s vision mission
and all of its policies.
Officials of the Bangsamoro government will be elected by
the people in the new political entity. The elected officials will elect from
among them a prime minister who leads the Bangsamoro government.
The Bangsamoro government will replace the current ARMM
regional government starting with the assumption of the transition commission
early next year until officials of the new regional government shall have been
elected in 2016.
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