PIMENTEL BACKS BILL FOR MUSLIM, IP CEMETERIES

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PIMENTEL BACKS BILL FOR MUSLIM, IP CEMETERIES

Timely and worthy of support. On this note, Senator Robin Padilla’s bill allowing equal access for Filipino Muslims and indigenous peoples (IPs) in public cemeteries gained support in the Senate, particularly from Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel III. In his “supportive” interpellation of Padilla’s Senate Bill 1273, Pimentel commended Padilla for “having thought of this idea,” and for authoring and sponsoring the measure. “This is a measure…