Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel chairman Mohagher Iqbal asked President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday to certify as urgent the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law to enable lawmakers to approve the bill on second reading and third reading at the soonest possible time.
Iqbal, at a news
conference in the House of Representatives, urged the leadership of the 16th
Congress to pass the draft law in November or December.
“The only window
of opportunity is the next deadline, if I may call it as such, which will be in
November to Dec. After that, it is all politics that fill the air,” Iqbal said.
“I appeal to the
honorable members of both Chambers of Congress to rise to the
occasion and be statesmen even for one moment in the history of this country.
The fate of the BBL is in your hands, and history will judge you on how you
dispense with the BBL,” Iqbal said.
Earlier, the
leadership of the House of Representatives said that lawmakers’ “conscience
votes” would decide the fate of the proposed peace measure at the House.
Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte Jr. has set a new target date for the approval of the BBL: December
16, saying a “conscience vote” has to prevail among lawmakers in supporting or
not supporting the measure.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/10/08/iqbal-urges-pnoy-to-certify-as-urgent-draft-moro-law/
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