The draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law that President Benigno Aquino 3rd gave Congress ignores the Republic of the Philippines, the Constitution and us the Filipino people.
This does not surprise us. The Framework Agreement and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the two previous foundational documents signed by President Aquino’s negotiators and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front panel, and which President Aquino approved, also virtually mocked us Filipinos and our most important laws and symbols. The original draft of the BBL that the MILF gave the Palace was so full of veritably anti-Philippine Republic and anti-Constitution contents that President Aquino had his people revise it—to the displeasure of his friends, the MILF supreme leaders.
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