00:00The Bicameral Conference Committee agreed that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao elections will be held in October 2025 instead of May.
00:11Some senators also gave their statements on this.
00:15The details are reported by Daniel Manalastas of PTV Manila.
00:21The Bicameral Conference Committee agreed to postpone the BARMM elections for five months.
00:28The Bicameral Conference Committee agreed to postpone the BARMM elections for five months instead of May.
00:34Senate President Francis Escudero admitted that he has some sentiments about postponing the BARMM elections for a year.
00:42It's been too long. Actually, my real reason, personally, I don't know the reason of others,
00:46if you do it, the Congress will be enough to reset it again.
00:50It's shorter, it's better for me so that there's no time to reset it again.
00:54The BARMM elections should continue.
00:57Senator JV Ejercito clarified that the Senate version was used as a working draft.
01:02But there are also provisions from the House of Representatives.
01:06Not all of them were followed by the Senate version.
01:09They compromised.
01:11So the House should postpone it for one year and then the term will be expired.
01:16They made an appointment to postpone the Senate version for five months and hold over until after the elections.
01:27Yesterday, Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri explained his vote to approve the Senate version.
01:34That's why I just approved it so that we can talk about the Senate version that will give a plebiscite in Sulu
01:44so that they can be reunited with the BARMM.
01:47Give them a chance, one last chance to make that self-determination if they really want to be reunited with the BARMM.
01:56It is also expected that the Senate version will be ratified by both sides.
