THE Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday denied a petition to reverse the decision of the court on the exclusion of Sulu in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), ruling its decision as final and executory.
The SC en banc maintained its September ruling where it said Sulu is not a part of BARMM after the province rejected the Bangsamoro Organic Law’s ratification.
“No further pleadings will be entertained,” SC Spokesperson Camille Sue Mae L. Ting told reporters in a news briefing on Tuesday.
The motion for partial reconsideration was filed by the government of BARMM, and the Office of the Solicitor General among others.
The law, enacted on July 27, 2018, established BARMM as a political entity and its governmental structure. The majority of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) ratified it, except for Sulu. Sulu filed the petition as it was included in BARMM despite not ratifying the law.
Its inclusion in BARMM violated Article X, Section 18 of the Constitution, which said that “only provinces, cities, and geographic areas voting favorably in the plebiscite shall be included in the autonomous region.” — Chloe Marie A. Hufana
