MALACAñANG on Thursday stood pat on the legality of the recently signed Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), saying the contents of the pact fall within the framework of the Philippine Constitution.

Palace spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters that fears that the CAB may end up like the defunct Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) are farfetched because the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) panels have given assurances that the CAB is “constitutionally defensible.” The MOA-AD was rejected by the Supreme Court in 2008.

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