Philippines set for historic vote in Muslim Mindanao’s BARMM

The Philippines is gearing up for historic regional elections to be held on Monday, one that government officials dubbed “a grand experiment.” Interior and local government secretary Jonvic Remulla described September 14’s polls as the creation of “a Muslim nation inside a Christian republic.”The Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted its final tests on automated ballot-counting machines and delivered them to 5,212 polling precincts throughout Muslim Mindanao over the weekend.About 2.4 mill...

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