The Supreme Court says the polls in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or BARMM cannot be postponed.
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00:00The Supreme Court says that the polls in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslimandanao
00:06or Barm cannot be postponed.
00:08ESSE spokesperson Camille Sumay Ting says the ruling is immediately executory, meaning
00:13that the decision should be fully implemented despite the pending motion for reconsideration.
00:18In September, the ESSE affirmed the constitutionality of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, but also ruled
00:23the Sulu should be excluded from the autonomous region since the province did not ratify the
00:28law during the 2019 plebiscite.
00:30The ruling was penned by ESSE Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonin.
00:35The Barm, which replaced the autonomous region in Muslimandanao or Arm, originally included
00:39Sulu.
00:40Earlier in November, Senate President Cheese Escudero filed Senate Bill No. 2682, seeking
00:46to postpone the 2025 Barm parliamentary elections to May 11, 2026, following the High Court's
00:52ruling.