Three years after the creation of the new Bangsamoro region, it is still facing multiple challenges in its crucial transition to peace after decades of armed conflict. The Bangsamoro Transition Authority, the region’s interim government, was granted a three-year extension until 2025.
The May 9, 2022 presidential election looks like nothing we have ever seen before, and we have to do everything to prevent it exploding into a total “failure of elections.”
Presidential hopeful Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso on Wednesday said his government would not be a mere rebranding of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
In two weeks, politicians aspiring to become president will file their certificates of candidacy before the Commission on Elections (Comelec), allowing the poll body enough time to print ballots for more than 60 million eligible voters in next May’s political contest.
Rodrigo Duterte faces a life-and-death scenario in next year’s elections.