Voting Starts in Philippines’ South After Three Killed in Election Violence
Nearly 2.4 million voters are choosing an 80-member parliament as officials report expanded checkpoints and swift security deployments after election-day violence.
- Nearly 2.4 million voters in the Philippines' Muslim-majority south cast ballots on Monday for the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao parliamentary elections, electing an 80-member parliament that will select the region's chief minister.
- The election completes a transition set by a 2014 peace deal between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front , ending decades of separatist conflict that killed around 150,000 people since the 1970s.
- Voting proceeded under heightened security after a Cotabato City shooting on Sunday killed three people and wounded 15, prompting Commission on Elections chairman George Garcia to place the city under direct control.
- Election officials also assumed control of Maluso in Basilan after discovering pre-shaded ballots in 36 of the town's 68 precincts, ordering immediate reprinting that delayed voting in the municipality.
- International partners view the election as a crucial test of whether regional autonomy granted under the 2014 peace deal can be sustained through elected institutions, with officials targeting at least 80 per cent voter turnout.
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The Independent (US)Voting starts in historic Philippines election marred by deadly clashes
The autonomous region will complete its transition to an elected self-government
The vote is the culmination of an intermittent peace process, begun in the late 1990s, which led to the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, in the southern part of the predominantly Catholic country. More than two million voters are expected to allocate 80 seats, contested by 13 political parties. To date, parliamentarians were appointed. In Marawi, a city that was bruised in 2017 by five months of confrontations between jihadists and …
Voting starts in Philippines' south after three killed in election violence
Voting starts in BARMM after three killed in election violence
Nearly 2.4 million voters are registered to elect BARMM’s 80-member parliament Legislature will choose chief minister after vote in Philippines’ only parliamentary region Philippines’ Marcos describes vote as ‘defining moment’ for the region and country MANILA — Voting began on Monday in the Philippines’ Muslim-majority south under heightened security after three people were killed and 15 wounded in violence on […]
Voters in the Philippines' Muslim-majority autonomous region began casting ballots for their first parliamentary election on Monday, hours after gun violence killed at least three people outside a polling station.
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