COTABATO CITY (Saturday, September 6, 2025) — A large bloc of local executives and sectoral leaders in the Bangsamoro region have reaffirmed commitment to Malacañang’s Mindanao peace process and promised support for multi-sector efforts to have peaceful and credible regional parliamentary elections on October 13, 2025.

Members of the influential Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Grand Coalition, most known as the BGC, had also reached a consensus, during their Ranaw Stakeholders’ Summit in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur on Thursday, September 4, to maximize their efforts in fostering unity among politicians and sectoral leaders in the province.

Most members of the BGC in Lanao del Sur, one of BARMM’s five provinces, belong to the region’s pioneer political party, the Serbisyong Inklusibo, Alyansang Progresibo, or SIAP. More than 30 of Lanao del Sur’s 39 mayors were elected to office during the May 12, 2025 elections as SIAP candidates.

Lanao del Sur Vice Gov. Mohammad Khalid Raki-in Adiong told reporters on Saturday, September 6, that the Ranaw Stakeholders’ Summit last Thursday in Marawi City was organized for sectoral leaders and local executives to build consensus on how they can cooperate better in peace and sustainable development initiatives meant to boost the socio-economic growth of Lanao del Sur.

The lawyer-entrepreneur Ronald Hallid Dimacisil Torres, chairman of the Bangsamoro Business Council, said Lanao del Sur has several towns touted as BARMM’s new investment hubs, ideal for capital-intensive, large-scale agricultural ventures.

The chairman of the Bangsamoro Regional Board of Investments, Mohammad Pasigan, said they are trying their best to entice investors from other regions and from abroad to venture into viable business projects in Lanao del Sur.

“Among the objectives of our Ranaw Stakeholders’ Summit is for participants to agree on how to address collectively peace and governance challenges and issues and how to build strong connections with the Bangsamoro regional government in terms of peace and development initiatives for our province,” Adiong, regional figurehead of the SIAP party said.

The BGC is composed of SIAP, the Bangsamoro People’s Party, the Al Ittihad Party and the Sallam Party that have chapters in BARMM’s five provinces, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi, and in its three cities, Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.

Politicians from across Lanao del Sur and in its capital, Marawi City, had also explicitly committed, during the summit, to help the Commission on Elections, the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and units of the military’s Western Mindanao Command ensure safe and clean BARMM parliamentary polls in October 13, 2025.

“We in Lanao del Sur want safe and credible parliamentary elections in our province and elsewhere in the Bangsamoro region,” Adiong said.

The SIAP has candidates for the parliamentary seats in different districts in Lanao del Sur and in other areas in the autonomous region, including Cotabato City, the seat of the BARMM regional government.