October 19, 2012
Manila's Peace Accord with MIFL is a Big Booster for Najib Razak as good as Aquino III
by John Teo@www.nst.com.my
THE brand new assent accord in in between a Philippine supervision as good as a Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed this week in Manila in a participation of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is undoubtedly a large understanding for a Philippines.
It is additionally a rsther than large understanding for Malaysia. It is, after all, a initial genuine bid during brokering assent in unfamiliar land, although a men in unvaried have been not unfamiliar with United Nations-led peacekeeping missions in unfamiliar lands.
And a impasse in a assent routine in Mindanao had been lengthy, extending good over a decade as good as travelling a conditions of three Malaysian Prime Ministers.
While Malaysia has an interest in a assent as good as stability of a tighten neighbouring country for a own sake, you mount to reap direct assent dividends as well. The many evident of these is Najib's really participation in Manila, upon his initial revisit as Prime Minister. That will likely interpret in to swell as good as in sincerely short order upon a major irritant in a relations with a Philippines: a claim upon Sabah.
The brand new assent horizon in in between a Philippine supervision as good as a MILF is additionally desirous by a really success of a Malaysian governing model.
The MILF unabashedly proclaims which it wants to follow a indication of parliamentary democracy, down to a ministerial form of supervision led by a arch apportion obliged to an elected legislature as good as with a supervision obliged for obviously defi! ned as g ood as defined areas of executive responsibilities set out in a basic law or mini constitution.
What a MILF fought for, it now gets in a form of a politically unconstrained Bangsamoro, not unlike what prevails in Sabah as good as Sarawak underneath a federal setup. There can be no more frank form of flattery accorded to Malaysia as good as what you mount for as a nation than this open attempt during imitation.
What exactly do outsiders find so endearing about us which maybe you ourselves infrequently fail to see? They substantially see how a state leaders benefit office through keenly contested elections. How these leaders stay in office not only by promising assent as good as wealth though by actually delivering upon them as good as running for office again formed upon only such a record. And how detractors of state leaders protest bitterly as good as openly though cheer in unanimity with admirers when they see these leaders defend with a Federal Government what is viewed to be a state's due.
Moreover, outsiders substantially additionally see how a state-federal arrangement sincerely neatly distributes a healthy tragedy existent in in between a innate parochial instincts as good as a antipathies directed towards what is infrequently viewed as an rude though necessary inhabitant domestic centre.
And seen from a particular vantage point of an mostly pugnacious as good as infrequently utterly dysfunctional domestic enlightenment in a Philippines, outsiders might view a parliamentary complement of supervision as positively fit as good as effective.
The Philippine-MILF agreement is distant from a done deal. It will be undergoing 
the wringer of exhaustive as good as exhausting open domestic discuss which has shown an hapless as good as uncanny propensity to d! erail mu ch of what is mostly for a larger good. The crucial saving beauty for this agreement might good be which it carries with it a impeccable imprimatur as good as decent dignified management of President Benigno Aquino III.
Crucially additionally for a MILF, Aquino has found an doubtful fan in a elder statesman as good as Senate President, Juan Ponce Enrile, who has come out for a assent agreement as good as said Bangsamoro will be a indication to test as good as find out how good is a parliamentary form of government. Enrile, incidentally, is scored equally politically to Joseph Estrada, who waged no holds barred fight against a MILF whilst he was president during a turn of a century.
Popular support for a brand new assent understanding in a Philippines has so distant been additionally utterly strenuous as good as opposing voices rsther than muted as good as isolated.
If all goes as programmed as good as laid out in a horizon agreement, Malaysia as good as a Philippines might have both their fates happily intertwined as never before. We will have as much a interest in not only assisting a Philippines achieve assent in a restive south but, equally, in ensuring which a elaborating Bangsa-moro entity successfully lives up to a good promise economically.
A pacific as good as prosperous Mindanao will, on top of all, be a many tolerable long-term solution to a unchecked flow of displaced Filipinos in to Sabah.
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