Inter-ethnic/State Relations – 1996

Written by

« Back to Provision

Inter-ethnic/State Relations – 1996

1996

Full Implementation Full implementation

President Fidel Ramos gave Executive Order no. 371 creating the Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD) to help integrate the Moro people into the Filipino nation. The SPCPD was an unelected administrative body under control of the president. It had five members on a main council and an 81-member Consultative Assembly.1

It was agreed that the five member main council would have a Muslim chairman and at least one other Muslim member and 44 of the 81 seats in the Consultative Assembly would be held by Muslims. The SPCPD was a transitional body to be dissolved after the plebiscite, which was originally scheduled for 1999.2

  1. “E.O. 371,” The LawPhil Project, accessed January 21, 2015, http://www.lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1996/eo_371_1996.html
  2. John D. Harber, “Conflict and Compromise in the Southern Philippines: The Case of Moro Identity,” (M.A. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 1998), 65-66.