BARMM Grand Coalition bares 10-point agenda ahead of 2025 polls

 

MANILA, Philippines —  The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Grand Coalition bared its 10-point agenda ahead of the region’s first parliamentary elections in 2025, which includes its commitment to sustain peace initiatives and supporting conflict-affected communities across the region.

The BARMM Grand Coalition is a region-wide alliance of four major political parties: the Salaam party led by Sulu Governor Sakur Tan, the Al-Ittihad party led by Tesda Sec. Suharto Mangudadatu and Maguindanao del Sur Governor Bai Mariam Sangki Mangudadatu; the Bangsamoro People’s party led by Basilan lone Rep. Mujiv Hataman; and the Serbisyong Inklusibo-Alyansang Progresibo party led by Lanao del Sur Gov. Bombit Adiong.

“More than anything else, we are ready to devote time and resources necessary to fully implement the signed peace agreements,” BARMM Grad Coalition Spokesperson and Member of Parliament Amir Mawallil said in a recent statement. 

“With the Bangsamoro Organic Law as our legal pillar, these agreements form the framework with which we strive to build a strong regional government that can support and respond to the needs of our conflict-affected communities.”

He also stressed the normalization program as the coalition’s key component in its agenda, stating that it would empower communities to achieve their desired quality of life.

Furthermore, Mawalil noted the coalition’s focus on pushing for a “transparent, accountable, effective, programmatic and efficient” regional government where “both the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front can continue to exercise leadership alongside the community leaders and other sectors we represent in the regional government.”

The coalition’s 10-point agenda, should it win in the 2025 elections, are as enumerated below:

1. Implement all signed peace agreements;
2. Facilitate the normalization program for Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) communities alongside related interventions for Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) communities, with a focus on policies and programs necessary to mainstream former combatants in Philippine society;
3. Institute a regional government that is transparent, accountable, effective, programmatic and efficient;
4. Form a united regional government with meaningful representation of the MILF and the MNLF, should it win a majority in the Barmm Regional Parliament;
5. Establish constructive and harmonious relations between the national and regional governments and the LGUs.
6. Respect and abide by the power of supervision of the president over the BARMM;
7. Support the President’s policies for peaceful elections and the peace process;
8. Uphold the Philippine Constitution, the Bangsamoro Organic Law, and other national laws at all times;
9. Maintain peace and order alongside efforts of state security forces such as the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police;
10. Support the implementation of the National Action Plan to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism (NAP-PCVE) in the Barmm.