MALACANANG will finally submit this week the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) to Congress, a month after President Rodrigo Duterte received the new version of the proposed measure, as part of efforts to end the conflict in Mindanao.

Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella made the announcement a few days after former president and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga filed her own version of the law creating the Bangsamoro region in Mindanao.

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