Most pressing issue:

Bangsamoro right to self-determination

The emergence of the Bangsamoro Basic Law has become a favorite topic of
debates among scholars in the Philippines. The people are divided: some are for its
passing, yet others desire for its failure.
The right of self-determination is the collective right of peoples to determine their
own future free of any outside interference or coercion. It includes the right to
determine their political status and to freely pursue their economic, social, spiritual
and cultural development. It is backed up by various international treaties like the
UN International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.
Bangsamoro is the collective identity of the Islamized people in Mindanao, in the
islands of Basilan and Palawan, and the Sulu and Tawi-Tawi archipelago in the south
of the Philippines.
As an organic act, the Basic Law would have provided for the basic structure of government for the
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, and enacted the agreements set forth in the Comprehensive
Agreement on the Bangsamoro, which is the peace agreement signed between the Government of
the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2014

The draft of the law was submitted by President Benigno Aquino III to Congress
leaders on September 10, 2014.[5]

An Ad Hoc committee assigned to the bill by Philippine House of Representatives

passed its version of the bill, House Bill 5811, on May 20, 2015. The bill is now
under interpellation in the house plenary.[6][7]

In the Philippine Senate, a revised version of the BBL, known as the Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region Law (Senate Bill 2894[8]), was presented on August 11,
2015[9] after lengthy deliberations on the BBL in the Committee on Local
Government,[9] and was due for interpellation on August 17, 2015.[10] Due to the
length and complexity of the bill, however, the senate temporarily deferred the
period of interpellation for the bill