REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MANILA - Malacanang said on Sunday that President Benigno Aquino III would give due priority to the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) once it reached his office.

Presidential Communication Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr., told reporters in a press briefing that Malacanang would submit the draft of Bangsamoro Basic Law to Congress the soonest possible time. The government peace panel and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) both issued a statement that they would submit the draft to Malacanang on 18 August 2014.

Based on the timetable, there is still ample time for ratification of the Bangsamoro Basic Law in Congress, in time for the establishment of the Bangsamoro Transitional Assembly and a plebiscite in 2016.

The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro was signed on March 27. The agreement ended the decades-long conflict that claimed the lives of hundreds of people in Muslim Mindanao.

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