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The Aquino administration opened the Philippine Military Academy to women. Female cadets showed commendable performance, with one of them topping the graduating class in 1999. 31 Introduced gender-responsive measures in government such as flexi-time, daycare, career advancement for women in government, and equality advocates. 32
The new Corazon Aquino Administration gave strong emphasis and concern for civil liberties and human rights, and peace talks with communist insurgents and Muslim secessionists. Cory also focused on bringing back economic health and confidence. The Aquino administration succeeded in paying off $4 billion of the country’s outstanding debts.
Although this volume records what the Aquino administration had accomplished from the more abstract feat as the restoration of democracy to the more palpable one as given in facts and figures, what is more revealing is that so much had been achieved in such a short span with so little space and lesser resources.
President Corazon Aquino assumed office in 1986, following the removal of Ferdinand Marcos from presidential office. She served as president of the Philippines from 1986 until 1992. As president, Aquino restored democracy by abolishing the legislature, declaring a revolutionary government, and appointing a fifty-member commission to write a new constitution, approved in 1987. In 1988,…
Aquino's achievements, however, were significant. She helped topple a dictator who had unlimited reserves of wealth, force, and cunning. She replaced a disjointed constitution that was little more than a fig leaf for Marcos's personalistic rule with a democratic, progressive document that won overwhelming popular approval in a nationwide plebiscite.
Jan 25, 2016 · From now on, Maria Corazon Aquino began to lead the life of an average Pilipino homemaker, supporting her husband, Benigno Aquino in his every move. Though at the time of their marriage Benigno Aquino worked as a journalist later he began to take interest in politics and quickly rose through ranks to become the nation’s youngest vice governor at the age of 27 (1959) and the governor of ...
Sep 22, 2023 · A: Corazon Aquino was the 11th President of the Republic of the Philippines, serving from 1986 to 1992. Q: What was Corazon Aquino’s role in the 1986 snap election? A: Corazon Aquino opposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the 1986 snap election, which led to the EDSA People Power Revolution. Q: What was the EDSA People Power Revolution?
