President Marcos said he would sign the bill postponing the December 2025 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) to next year, citing the need to prioritize the country’s first-ever Bangsamoro Parliament elections in October. Marcos said this less than a week before the bill seeking...
The House of Representatives has ratified a measure postponing the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) elections. During Wednesday's plenary session, lawmakers agreed to move the polls from May 12 to Oct. 13, 2025 after approving the Bicameral Conference Committee report...
The Senate ratified on Tuesday, Feb. 4, the bicameral conference committee report on the bill resetting the first-ever Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to Oct. 13, 2025. (Senate PRIB photo) During the plenary session, Senator Joseph Victor "JV" Ejercito said that the bicam...
Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero said on Tuesday, Feb. 4 that the bicameral conference committee has approved setting the first-ever Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) polls on Oct. 13. "Ang inadopt five months, October 13 ang halalan, pumayag ang kamara. May mga...
The Senate has approved the bill resetting the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) elections from May 12 to October 13, 2025. Eighteen (18) senators voted in favor of Senate Bill No. 2942 under Committee Report No. 466; Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko”...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has expressed support for the measure resetting the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) saying it would give the region more time to prepare for elections. Cayetano also said it would be more logical to delay the...
The extent of postponing the first-ever Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) polls is still up for discussion by the Senate and the House of Representatives in a brewing discussion of the bicameral conference committee next week. The Senate earlier approved its own version...
Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Facebook) Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong is hopeful that senators will respond to President Marcos' certification of the...
President Marcos has certified the bill seeking to postpone the Bangsamoro election as urgent, Malacañang said. "This is confirmed," Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Chavez said on Wednesday, Jan. 29, confirming that Marcos has certified the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of...
Senate Committee on Local Government chairman Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito has pressed for the postponement of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) elections saying it is essential to maintain stability in the region. The Senate senior deputy majority...
Senator Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri has filed a bill seeking to include the Province of Sulu in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). SB 2915 sets a plebiscite for this purpose and allows its constituents to once again vote on Sulu's inclusion, "now guided by the positive...
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin has said that it is up for the Congress to decide if it will further extend the suspension of elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). "That is now in the hands of the Congress, 'yung [the] BARMM extension or suspension [of the...