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BARMM parliament sets December deadline to finalize districting law
The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) Parliament aims to pass a new parliamentary districting law by December 2025, a prerequisite for the region's first regular elections now planned for March 2026.
This urgency follows a Supreme Court ruling in late September that postponed the first regional parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) last October.
The Supreme Court struck down Bangsamoro Autonomy Act (BAA) 77 as unconstitutional, blocking its redistricting of parliamentary seats and ruling that the earlier law, BAA 58, cannot be reinstated.
The high court directed the BTA to pass a new valid districting law and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to hold the parliamentary elections by March 31, 2026.
The two voided BARMM laws were an offshoot of a 2024 SC decision that excluded Sulu province from the Muslim-majority region, requiring a reconfiguration of legislative districts.
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