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Goodbye, farewell, and amen, BBL

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FEBRUARY 03, 2016

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I went to the Batasan last Tuesday for a meeting

and discussion with a leading member of our
House of Representatives. While in the premises, I
was enticed to attend the farewell news conference

of the House Independent Minority Bloc, some of

whose members and leaders happen to be my
friends and comrades in past undertakings. I

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assented to the suggestion, half-thinking that it

might produce some useful information and ideas
for this column.

Media conference turned into a wake

To my surprise, the news conference turned out to
be a wake. And it was an unusual wake. The
assembled legislators and the media were there
not to mourn or eulogize, but to perform a post-
mortem.

The dead body was the Bangsamoro Basic Law

(BBL), whose demise had been announced a day
earlier by the House of Representatives, the
Philippine Senate, and Malacañang Palace.

At the media conference, three minority bloc

leaders – Leyte congressman Martin Romualdez,
Buhay party-list representative Lito Atienza, and
Abakada party-list representative Jonathan de la
Cruz — took turns in performing last rites and
post-mortems on the failed legislation.

They related how they, along with other opposition

leaders, fought the House leadership tooth- and-
nail to thwart the scheme to railroad the BBL

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through the House. They analyzed why the

initiative totally and utterly failed – and why last-
minute procedures to save the patient were of no
avail.

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the BBL as a top priority.

The discourse was so lively, I joined in by

throwing in a question.

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I asked the House Minority Bloc, if after

prolonged debate and contention over the BBL —
the bloc had become comfortable with using the

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term and name, Bangsamoro. I said that there are

many who believe that the name Bangsamoro is
itself a liability for the ambitious proposal.
Bangsamoro means “Moro nation”– it advertises
and rubs our noses on the objective of establishing
a Moro state in Philippine territory and within our
Philippine Republic. By this measure,
Bangsasmoro has a public relations problem as
big as the Islamic Caliphate.

De la Cruz replied that in the unfinished debates

on the BBL in the House, their bloc had placed on
record their reservations about the name, as an
integral part of their opposition to the BBL.

What really killed BBL in the House was

something as banal as the fact that the chamber’s
leadership could never seem to produce a quorum
to tackle this momentous issue. Even the dirty
stratagem of manufacturing a quorum through the
device of listing as present representatives who
were not present in the session hall (“the moving
present,” which I discussed in an earlier column)
did not work. The simple and intractable fact was
that the BBL repelled many House members, as
though it was leprosy.

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In the Senate, the fate of BBL was sealed by the

stern opposition of 17 senators to the original bill,
particularly Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who led the
fight against the BBL, and moved to write a
substitute bill.

Mamasapano – Immediate cause of death

The immediate cause of death of the BBL,
proponents and opponents alike are convinced,
was the massacre of the 44 Social Action Force
(SAF) commandos in Mamasapano, Maguindanao
on January 25, 2015.

Senate President Franklin Drilon remarked

sentimentally that there was a 45th casualty in
Mamasapano, and it was the BBL. Actually, there
were some 20 other non-SAF casualties, some
members of the MILF and civilians.

As a pet initiative of President Aquino, to which

he had attached hopes of landing the Nobel Peace
prize and on which he had spent P40 billion of

taxpayer’s money in promoting, Malacañang

announced its acceptance of the impossibility of
passing the BBL in the 16th Congress as though it

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were announcing a death in the family.

Aquino immediately instructed his secretary of the

peace process, Teresita Quintos-Deles, to work on
effecting a smooth transfer of the initiative to the
next Congress and the next administration.

This may effectively extend the appointments of

Deles and chief peace negotiator Miriam Coronel-
Ferrer to Aquino’s very last day in office. But for
all intents and purposes, the once dreaded Deles-
Ferrer combo have officially outlived their
welcome.

One peace negotiator who will remain in public

life even after Aquino is gone, is supreme court
associate justice Marvic Leonen, whose guilty
hands have often been overlooked. He originally
negotiated as chief government negotiator the
Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
(CAB). He was instrumental in convincing Aquino
to wager all on the Bangsamoro project. With

Leonen installed in the high court, the nation is

compelled to live out his public life until his
retirement. Leonen could cause us many more

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nightmares before he is done.

Epitaph for BBL

The list of reasons for celebrating the demise of
the BBL is long.

One reason that will always stick out for me as

particularly offensive is Malaysia’s role as
eminence grise (the sinister puppeteer) of the
Bangsamoro project.

I believe I was the first columnist to write that the

BBL is a Malaysian Trojan horse – a scheme
devised by our Asean neighbor to undermine our
nation because of our still unresolved claim and
rights to Sabah (North Borneo).

Ambassador Lauro Baja perhaps described the

BBL best when he wrote in this paper and
declared in a public forum at the Manila Polo
Club that “the BBL was made by Malaysia, in
Malaysia, and for Malaysia.”

That, I submit, is the most fitting epitaph for the

Bangsamoro Basic Law.

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