Latest in Samira GutocThe incoming Bangsamoro parliament’s top three priorities must be employment, education, and social services—including services for the more than 5 million Bangsamoro people living outside the BARMM who feel underserved by their own homeland’s government, Maranao leader Samira Gutoc said Monday.…
The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (BARMM) parliamentary system of government is a governance prototype that the rest of the Philippines should study and learn from, because it is the only system in the country where department heads are both duly elected legislators and members…
Maranao leader and civil society advocate Samira Gutoc woke up at 3 a.m. on election day, offered a prayer, and then cast her ballot at her precinct in Marantao, Lanao del Sur, dedicating her vote to peace, to her late parents, to the religious leaders who stood with the Bangsamoro cause, and to…
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