{"id":59151,"date":"2015-08-17T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59151"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T04:57:01","slug":"lack-of-quorum-delays-bbl-passage-bothers-belmonte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/17\/lack-of-quorum-delays-bbl-passage-bothers-belmonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of quorum delays BBL passage, bothers Belmonte"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA \u2013 Few attendees at the House of Representatives in the deliberation of House Bill 4994 or the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) has been impeding its passage, House Speaker Feliciano \u201cSonny\u201d Belmonte Jr. admitted.<\/p>\n

Only few lawmakers participated in the resume of debates on the draft BBL, which aimed to form a new Bangsamoro government which would replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, for his part, disclosed that some representatives may be \u2018purposely absenting\u2019 as they were opposed to the passage of the bill.<\/p>\n

Belmonte, however, still wanted to pass the measure by next month as the House needed to discuss the 2016 national budget afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bothersome, but I\u2019m still confident of its passage\u2026 We have to do our best to talk to the [Congress] leaders,\u201d he said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, BBL panel chairman Rufus Rodriguez, welcomed the House and the Senate\u2019s actions on the proposed bill.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are a lot of balancing acts to be done to ensure that the [draft BBL] remains true both to the genuine aspirations of the Bangsamoro for self-determination and the 1987 Philippine Constitution,\u201d Rodriguez said in the same report.<\/p>\n

He also acknowledged the Senate\u2019s new version of the proposed measure \u2013 the Basic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BLBAR).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House and Senate versions of the BLBAR carry significant differences,\u201d Rodriguez added. \u201cEarly reviews of the Senate version\u2026 weakened [the] Bangsamoro parliamentary system of government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having differences in the two versions and with the Senate\u2019s numerous omissions in the bill, the BBL panel chairman noted that these were expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis only proves that we have a working and healthy democracy.<\/p>\n

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As legislators with independent minds, different takes on the bill are to be expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is the beauty of our democratic system. You have independent minds working on the same thing [that] will eventually compare notes, as they say, and reach a consensus,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

After the House and Senate deliberations, the joint Congress will then finalize the measure in a conference on its third reading.<\/p>\n

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), for its part, feared that a \u2018diluted\u2019 version of the BBL would be passed. To this, Rodriguez stayed optimistic that the Muslim group would accept the amended bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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