MILF: Gov't wants 50-50 sharing of wealth (but Bangsamoro wants 75% and 25% for Gov't?)

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MILF: Gov't wants 50-50 sharing of wealth

by Dharel G. Placido, ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 07/12/2013 9:41 AM | Updated as of 07/12/2013 9:52 AM
MANILA – The latest round of talks between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government peace panel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ended on Thursday without reaching an agreement on the sensitive wealth-sharing annex.
Ghazali Jaafar, MILF vice chairman for political affairs, said both sides did not reach an agreement on the sharing of wealth in the yet-to-be created Bangsamoro region.
Jaafar said the government wants a 50-50 percent wealth sharing, but the MILF is asking for a 75-25 percent sharing favoring the rebel group.
"Fifty-fifty ang gusto ng gobyerno, but I believe we cannot accept that sapagkat ang 50 percent ay masyado ng malaki para sa partehan. Kailangan ito ng Bangsamoro," Jaafar told ANC.
Jaafar said the MILF is seeking a larger share in the resources of the Bangsamoro region to ensure a good future for the next generation of Bangsamoro people.
"Masasabi ko na ang isa sa mga pinakamalaking dahilan kung bakit nananatiling halos pulubi ang mga Bangsamoro people sa loob ng napakahabang panahon ay sapagkat kontrolado ng central government ang yaman ng Bangsamoro people at politically marginalized ang Bangsamoro people," he said.
"Napaka-importante, napakahalaga nito para sa Bangsamoro people. Paano sila mabubuhay kung malaking bahagi nito ay mapupunta sa central government?" he added.
Wealth-sharing was one of the contentious issues in the mothballed agreement between the government and the MILF in 2008, where the proposed sub-state was named the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity.
The two sides returned to the negotiating table on Monday to hammer out the details of the three remaining annexes on wealth-sharing, power-sharing and normalization.
Together with the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the annex on Transitional Arrangements and Modalities, the three annexes will comprise the comprehensive agreement on the Bangsamoro.


Source: MILF: Gov't wants 50-50 sharing of wealth | ABS-CBN News

[amingb]

Inyoha nalang nang Mindanao ...

[timshel0703]

Islamists grabbing the hand that feeds them.

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How about decreasing the government allotment to the Bangsamoro entity by 75%? Fair enough.

[amingb]

nagpakitang gilas man gud ni pnoy admin . tan-awa si marvic leonen nahimo nang Supreme Court Justice ...

[Scott Bernard]

mao na karon... kadugayan mo hawod na jud ning mga moklo nga rebelde...

For those who calls them "our muslim brothers", pag mata namo.

[amingb]

Kanang mga Muslim diha mindanao dili jud na madala ug Peace2x kay ilahon jud nanag Mindanao .. Initial Victory na nila ug makuha jud nila ang 75% profit ... and next ana ang whole mindanao napud nang sunod ....

Dili kaha ni illegal ang agreement kay parihas raman ni sa MOA-AD ni Arroyo ... unsa nani ? .. dili ni illegal kay Pnoy nata karon .. ambot lang ...

[kit_cebu]

ka-nindot gyud tinuod nga malahi ang Visayas aning mga amaw sa mindanao ug mga kawatan sa manila...Visayas Republic...

[amingb]

MOA-AD Part 2?


So what is the latest proposal engineered to bring peace to the war-ridden island? The Moro Islamic National liberation Front has finally made it clear. They want a state within a state (or a sub-state). According to its Web site, “The MILF’s formula to solve the Moro Question in Mindanao is very simple … Let the Moros run their affairs. Let them decide their own destiny. Let them succeed or self-destruct. Gone [are] the days when the government in Manila designed everything for them. The most important element here is self-determination … This is a right that cannot be foreclosed by any agreement or [be] the subject of negotiation.” First, what is this right to self-determination? It is a people’s right to “determine their political future and freely to pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” Under current practice, it is a right of a people to choose between independence, as well as self-government, local autonomy, merger, association or some other forms of participation in government. In other words, it is not limited to creating an independent state, contrary to what many believe. What are the limitations by which the MILF may be accorded this right? Well, in nullifying the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, a pact also intended to finally achieve peace during the Arroyo administration, the Supreme Court ruled that any agreement with the MILF should be within the confines of our Constitution. Said the Court: “MOA-AD cannot be reconciled with the present Constitution and laws. Not only its specific provisions but the very concept underlying them, namely, the associative relationship envisioned between the GRP and the [Bangsamoro Juridical E Entity] are unconstitutional, for the concept presupposes that the associated entity is a state and implies that the same is on its way to independence.” Addressing the issue of the need to amend the Constitution to give effect to the agreement, the court declared: “Moreover, it virtually guarantees that the necessary amendments to the Constitution and the laws will eventually be put in place. Neither the GRP Peace Panel nor the President herself is authorized to make such a guarantee”. With these as guidelines, how do we assess the latest proposal of the MILF?

Quite frankly, I think the latest proposal, if assented to by President Benigno Aquino III, may suffer the same fate as the earlier agreement on ancestral domain. This is because what the MILF proposes goes beyond the grant of full autonomy that Congress may provide by law. In their own words, they want a “sub-state within a state”. This is an independent state within a federal form of government. Ours currently is a unitary form of government . In Basco et al vs. PAGCOR, the Court explained that in our system of government, “local governments can only be an intra sovereign subdivision of one sovereign nation, it cannot be an imperium in imperio. Local government in such a system can only mean a measure of decentralization of the function of government.” A federal system of government, on the other hand, is where independent states share sovereignty with the central government. Under this system, the states comprising the federation have an existence and perform functions that cannot be unilaterally changed by the central government. A federal system of government is clearly what the MILF wants under its concept of a “sub-state within a state”. There is nothing wrong with this except that as it currently stands, it cannot be done without amending the 1987 Constitution. Yes, there are procedures for this, either through a constitutional convention, a constituent assembly, or through a people’s initiative. But as stressed by Chief Justice Reynato Puno in his separate opinion : “there is no power nor is there any right to violate the Constitution on the part of any official of government. No one can claim he has a blank check to violate the Constitution in advance and the privilege to cure the violation later through amendment of its provisions. Respondents’ thesis of violate now, validate later makes a burlesque of the Constitution.” Mr. President, take heed.

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Si Leonen Violator of the Constitution nahimo na hinoon nga SC Justice ......

[zyden112]

d musugot c duterte anah! nga ang mindanao angkonun sa atung muslim brothers... Saon pud ana nila, grabeh mudumot, hahays!

[hunyanggo1977]

Hmmm... dili kaha the real reason why a certain person named LEONEN was put in the SC, is that when the GRP-MILF peace agreement will be challenged in the court, the will have a defender who is an insider? For sure that person will try his very best to ensure that the agreement will not experienced what the MOA-AD experienced before...