Politics
Creation of Bangsamoro parliament a major step to end decades-long separatist conflict
Campaign posters for the Sept. 14 election to the legislature in the Southern Philippines’ Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on display along a road in Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines. © Kyodo
RAMON ROYANDOYAN
September 14, 2026 09:52 JST
MANILA — More than two million voters in the southern Philippines went to the polls on Monday to elect the Bangsamoro Parliament, marking a pivotal moment in the long‑standing peace effort to resolve the region’s decades‑old separatist conflict.