Legislative Branch Reform: Mindanao Final Agreement

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Legislative Branch Reform: Mindanao Final Agreement

Implementations

Legislative Branch Reform – 1996

The 1996 peace accord calls for the creation of a new Regional Legislative Assembly with 24 representatives to be elected based on the 8 congressional districts located in the 5 ARMM territories. No Regional Legislative Assembly elections were held in 1996.

Legislative Branch Reform – 1997

No Regional Legislative Assembly elections were held in 1997.

Legislative Branch Reform – 1998

No Regional Legislative Assembly elections were held in 1998.

Legislative Branch Reform – 1999

No Regional Legislative Assembly elections were held in 1999.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2000

No Regional Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2000.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2001

The Republic Act 9054 becomes law which formally established the Regional Legislative Assembly, although no representative elections are held for the Regional Legislative Assembly in 2001.1

  1. Astrid S. Tuminez, “This land is our land: Moro ancestral domain and its implications for peace and development in the Southern Philippines,” SAIS Review 27, no. 2 (2007): 77-91.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2002

No representative elections for the Regional Legislative Assembly were held in 2002.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2003

No representative elections for the Regional Legislative Assembly were held in 2003.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2004

No representative elections for the Regional Legislative Assembly were held in 2004.

Legislative Branch Reform – 2005

On 8 August 2005, gubernatorial and representative elections are held for the ARMM. The MNLF lost the governorship in the autonomous region. According to the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), Commission on Elections there were 24 new members elected to the Regional Legislative Assembly from the five provinces and one city which make up the ARMM.1

  1. “2005 ARMM Elections,” Republic of the Philippines Commission on Elections, accessed July 31, 2012, http://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=Archives/RegularElections/2005ARMM/Results&…