page_title: Bangsamoro Transition Authority
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bangsamoro Transition Authority / History
caption_attribution_description: English: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administers the oath to the members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority during a ceremony at the Malacañan Palace on February 22, 2019.
context_page_description: The Bangsamoro Transition Authority is the interim regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and has executive and legislative powers over the region.
context_section_description: With the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law following a plebiscite on January 21, 2019 the abolition process of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) begins paving way for the formal creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. Under the law a transition body, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), is to be organized pending the election of the new region's government officials in 2022.
  It was planned that the BTA will be constituted in February 2019. It is projected that the transition body will compose of a total of 105 members (80 appointed members and 25 elected officials of the ARMM) until June 30, 2019. After that date the body will compose of only 80 members.
  Until the BTA was constituted, Section 5 of Article XVI of the Bangsamoro Organic Law provided for a caretaker body consisting of the same 25 ARMM officials as well as the original 20 members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.
  The 80 appointed members of the BTA took their oath on February 22, 2019 with the official turnover of the ARMM to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region occurred on February 26, 2019.
caption: President Rodrigo Duterte administers the oath to the members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority during a ceremony at the Malacañang Palace on February 22, 2019.
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