After the euphoria and heightened expectations of the signing ceremony on 7 March, the hard grind of turning the Agreement into a draft Bangsamoro Basic Law and having the law passed and ratified have begun to quell the euphoria and turn expectations into concerns, The decades-long search for a peace deal to end peace deals has had many false dawns the 1973 Tripoli Agreement under Marcos, the 1989 establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao under Corazon Aquino, the 1996 peace deal under Ramos and the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain under Macapagal-Arroyo followed by a return to low-intensity conflict and a more complicated, less peace deal-friendly situation.