{"id":172857,"date":"2018-07-24T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172857"},"modified":"2018-07-24T03:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:22:03","slug":"prrd-sign-bol-right-house-ratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/24\/prrd-sign-bol-right-house-ratification\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD to sign BOL right after House ratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169399\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duterte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169399\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duterte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duterte.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duterte-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Duterte-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe President to sign it into law is for the House to ratify the bicam version of the bill. So if it will be ratified later, then the President can sign it tonight,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a regular Palace press briefing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pcoogov\/photos\/a.2229247997104849.1073742670.154701207892882\/2229248240438158\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo: Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday said President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) as soon as it is ratified by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President to sign it into law is for the House to ratify the bicam version of the bill. So if it will be ratified later, then the President can sign it tonight,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a regular Palace press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte was not able to sign the BOL as scheduled before his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday due to the House\u2019s failure to ratify the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed measure.<\/p>\n<p>It was only the Senate that unanimously approved the bicam report hours before the joint opening session of the third regular session of the 17th Congress on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his SONA, Duterte has expressed commitment to sign the BOL after reading the bicameral conference version.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite all that has been said [for] or against the Bangsamoro Organic Law by all sectoral groups, I make this solemn commitment that this administration will never deny our Muslim brothers and sisters the basic legal tools to chart their own destiny within the Constitutional framework of our country,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the approved version is transmitted [to] and received by my office\u2026 The law has been passed actually and I intend to\u2026 Give me 48 hours to sign it and ratify the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Since the proposed law was not signed during SONA, Roque said \u201ca ceremony of sort\u201d should highlight the signing of the BOL seen to end decades-long conflict in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the BOL did not take center stage in the SONA, there\u2019s some kind of ceremony here in the Palace to highlight the singing,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday said President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) as soon as it is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":169399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}