BAGUIO CITY: The chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Government has expressed support to passage of pending measures in Congress for the establishment of an autonomous region in the Cordillera pursuant to pertinent provisions of the Constitution mandating the creation of self-ruled regions in Muslim Mindanao and the Cordillera in Northern Luzon.
Sen. Francis Tolentino, chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Government, said he will be engaging Cordillera lawmakers in the coming weeks to discuss the pending bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the formation of the Cordillera Autonomous Region even as he is also working on a proposed extension of the transition period for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao.
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