Constitutional Reform: Mindanao Final Agreement
Implementations
Constitutional Reform – 1996
None of the above-mentioned constitutional changes stipulated by the 1996 peace agreement took place this year.
Constitutional Reform – 1997
None of the above-mentioned constitutional changes stipulated by the 1996 peace agreement took place this year.
Constitutional Reform – 1998
None of the above-mentioned constitutional changes stipulated by the 1996 peace agreement took place this year.
Constitutional Reform – 1999
None of the above-mentioned constitutional changes stipulated by the 1996 peace agreement took place this year.
Constitutional Reform – 2000
None of the above-mentioned constitutional changes stipulated by the 1996 peace agreement took place this year.
Constitutional Reform – 2001
The Expanded ARMM Law or Republic Act 9054 was passed in 2001. As called for by the 1996 accord, Republic Act 9054 provided for a new 24 seat Regional Assembly for the ARMM in which current ARMM provinces and new provinces could vote to join the ARMM. For provinces and cities that were to be included in the expanded area of the autonomous region, the voters were asked whether they favored inclusion or opposed it.1
A plebiscite to expand the ARMM was held on 14 August 2001. Of the 14 provinces and 9 cities in the SZOPAD, one additional province (Basilan) and one city (Marawi) voted to be included in the new expanded ARMM.2 About 50 percent of the 4.9 million eligible voters took part in the plebiscite.3
- “R.A. No. 9054,” Congress of the Philippines, 2001, accessed August 23, 2012, http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/ra_11/RA09054.pdf
- Official Website of the ARMM, “ARMM History,” accessed on July 30, 2012, http://armm.gov.ph/history/
- “Two cities set to join a Muslim self-rule area in Philippines,” Agence France Presse, August 15, 2001.
Constitutional Reform – 2002
No further constitutional changes pertaining to the 1996 accord took place.
Constitutional Reform – 2003
No further constitutional changes pertaining to the 1996 accord took place.
Constitutional Reform – 2004
No further constitutional changes pertaining to the 1996 accord took place.
Constitutional Reform – 2005
No further constitutional changes pertaining to the 1996 accord took place.