Historic southern Philippines assembly election tests stability, self-rule

Creation of Bangsamoro parliament a major step to end decades-long separatist conflict Campaign posters for the Sept. 14 election to the legislature in the Southern Philippines' Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on display along a road in Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines. © Kyodo MANILA — More than 2 million voters in the southern Philippines head to the polls on Monday to elect a regional parliament in one of the final stages of a protracted peace process to end a decades-long separatist conflict in one of the poorest parts of the country.

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