The Senate may not be able to pass the substitute bill of
the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) this year but it is not yet dead, Senate
President Franklin Drilon said on Thursday.
”The is not yet dead,” Drilon told the Kapihan sa Senado
forum when as to react on Senator Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos’ statement that
BBL may not be able to pass under the current 16th Congress.
Drilon said the Senate leadership has discussed the status
of the BBL with Marcos and “we share the belief that there is no serious
objection in the Senate.”
”There are lot of interpellations, for clarifications,
amendments on doubts of constitution. We don’t see effort to block it,” he
added.
Drilon said the Senate would continue the interpellation
despite the argument of Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile that BBL
should be passed first in the House of Representatives “since it is a bill of
local application.”
”Whatever it is, we are taking the conservative approach. We
will await the passage of the BBL in the House but we will continue to debate
so that when the House will be able to transmit its version in our chamber we
can immediately pass our own version,” Drilon said.
Drilon said the same process was practiced when both houses
of Congress passed Republic Act No. 6734 or the Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) Organic Law in 1989.
The ARMM will be replaced by the Bangsamoro political entity
once the BBL or BLBAR is enacted into law.
Drilon assured that the Senate will not encounter quorum in
the remaining session days from Jan. 18 to Feb. 5 next year.
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