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SUPREME COURT FINALIZES SULU’S EXCLUSION FROM BARMM

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2024.11.27
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The exclusion of Sulu from the BARMM is final and immediately executory, the Supreme Court said rejecting motions to overturn its ruling (Photo courtesy of Rappler)

 

The Supreme Court (SC) en banc has denied the motions for partial reconsideration seeking to reverse its decision to separate the province of Sulu from BARMM.

 

“These motions sought to reverse the Court’s Decision on September 9, 2024, which excluded the Province of Sulu from the BARMM.” The motion was filed by the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) government, the Office of the Solicitor General and other parties.

 

The Court declared its decision final and immediately executory, closing the door to any further appeals. “No further pleadings will be entertained,” the SC said.

 

On September 9, the high court ruled that the inclusion of Sulu in the BARMM violated Section 18, Article X of the 1987 Constitution, which states that only areas voting favorably in a plebiscite can be included in an autonomous region.

 

Sulu had rejected the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) in the 2019 plebiscite, with 163,526 voting against and 137,630 in favor. However, under the defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), provinces voted as a single geographical unit, resulting in Sulu's continued inclusion in the BARMM.

 

The high court declared Section 3(a), Article XV of the BOL unconstitutional, invalidating the provision that treated the ARMM as a single voting unit.

 

The SC put an emphasis on the effectivity of its latest decision as there had been a different interpretation about its earlier ruling. Some believed that the September decision has yet to be finalized, so the High Court recently reiterated that its BARMM decision was actually immediately executory.

 

 

Source: GMA Integrated News

 

 

 

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