The Commission on Elections noted it had no allocated budget for the required Bangsamoro membership plebiscites in 2015 and would need at least six months once funds were provided, to organize them.
Concerns that powerful interests will oppose the Agreement and aim to quash the Bangsamoro Basic Law in Congress or through the courts that were behind the delayed submission seem justified. The philippine national broadsheets, all based in Manila, have run an ever growing number of opinion pieces and features or citing legal luminaries and national politicians concluding that the Agreement and draft law are unconstitutional as they give too much sovereign power to the yet-to-be established Bangsamoro political entity. Further complicating the situation, senior government officials appointed by President Aquino and from local Mindanao dynasties long opposed Moro autonomy have voiced similar concerns about a loss of national powers,20 Political leaders from the long-restive Cordillera region are eyeing an enhancement of their own regional autonomy arrangement in line with the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law The Moro National Liberation Front also appears to be overcoming its internecine factionalism to reject the deal. With the support of the organization of Islamic Cooperation, in which the Moro National Liberation Front is the only observer organization, it is demanding that the new Bangsamoro Basic Law be integrated with the existing law that codified the 1996 peace deal it struck with Manila.
The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro still is the best chance for a successful political solution to the Moro Islamic insurgency. However the slow process of the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law in 2014 symbolizes how difficult a chance it still is.