BARMM Speaker Pangalian Balindong factors a memorandum on July 4, directing all members of the world’s parliament and totally different key officers to ‘perform their frequent duties, as typical’
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Interim officers of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Space in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are staying put as they sit up for Malacañang to clarify a memorandum that declared vacant authorities positions occupied by appointed officers on the day President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed his submit.
Bangsamoro space officers protect that the June 30 order, signed by Govt Secretary Victor Rodriguez, did not apply to BARMM’s interim officers, based mostly totally on a 2021 laws that amended the Bangsamoro Pure Regulation (BOL) of 2018.
Rodriguez, through Memorandum Spherical No. 1, declared vacant “positive positions throughout the departments, workplaces, firms, and bureaus throughout the authorities division…environment friendly noontime of 30 June 2022.”
The memorandum covers the following:
All presidential appointees whose appointments are categorized as coterminousAll presidential appointees occupying positions created in further of the accredited staffing patternAll non-career authorities service officers occupying occupation authorities service positionsContractual or casual authorities staff
As a result of it was established in 2019, the BARMM has been run by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) with members all appointed by then-president Rodrigo Duterte. Their phrases of office, along with that of BARMM interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim’s, had been presupposed to expire on June 30.
Nevertheless a laws handed in late 2021 moved the regional elections from 2022 to 2025, extending the mandate of the BTA for 3 further years.
BARMM Lawyer Regular Sha Elijah Dumama Alba talked about the BTA, as interim Bangsamoro authorities, and its members would proceed serving throughout the regional authorities throughout the event that Marcos does not prepare the ability to appoint.
BARMM Speaker Pangalian Balindong issued Memorandum Order No. 191-2022 on Monday, July 4, directing all members of BARMM’s parliament and folks holding key positions throughout the regional authorities to “perform their frequent duties, as typical.”
Balindong cited the 2021 laws, Republic Act No. 11593, and maintained that “all incumbent Members of the BTA Parliament are allowed to proceed in office and discharge their official capabilities, duties, and duties…until June 30, 2025, or until the first Chief Minister has been elected and authorized.”
Balindong, nonetheless, added, “That’s with out prejudice to the constitutionally-granted vitality of the current President to appoint a model new set of BTA Parliament [members] inside his time interval.”
The model new laws, signed by Duterte in October 2021, amended a provision throughout the BOL that had supplied that the first BARMM elections be synchronized with the May 2022 nationwide elections.
Nevertheless the amended BOL moreover empowered the president to appoint 80 members of the BTA after their phrases of office expired on June 30.
The modification left untouched a clause throughout the BOL that supplied that the BTA must be led by the Moro Islamic Liberation Entrance (MILF). – MR
