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BARMM candidates forge peace deal
Eight aspirants for the six seats of two parliamentary districts in Cotabato City have forged a covenant to help ensure a clean and peaceful regional election on October 13.
Candidates Shariff Abas, Reynaldo Canen and Romeo Sema signed the compact for the city's first parliamentary district, while Zahrumin Midtimbang, Al-Haashir Ala, Madatu Datumanong, Jaafar Ali and Naguib Sinarimbo are aspiring to represent the second district.
The aspirants expressed appreciation to the Philippine Marine Corps, the Army's 6th Infantry Division and the Cotabato City police for their efforts to foster peace in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The BARMM parliamentary election on October 13 will be the first since the region's establishment in 2019 and will fill its 80-seat parliament.
Presidential peace adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. announced an 'operation pause' in the decommissioning program of the MILF due to the upcoming polls, expressing hope for the peace process.
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