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The presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, also known as the Arroyo administration, spanned nine years from January 20, 2001, to June 30, 2010. She served the remainder of her predecessor Joseph Estrada 's term after he was deposed, and she was elected to a full second term in 2004 which ended in 2010.
Arroyo is the first president to succeed the presidency as the child of a previous president; her father was Diosdado Macapagal, who served as the country's ninth president between from 1961 to 1965. [24]
Jun 7, 2024 · Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino politician who was president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. She brought an unprecedented academic and administrative background to the Philippines presidency, but her tenure was plagued by political unrest.
Mar 23, 2022 · Twenty months into her presidency in 2002, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the second female president of the country after Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, was facing difficult times which she said “try men’s souls and tax a woman’s patience.”
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo succeeded Estrada as president. The daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, the president of the Philippines in the early 1960s, she was Estrada’s vice president and became president after he was ousted in 2001.
Mar 14, 2024 · After gaining experience in academia, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo entered the realm of politics and made her mark as the 10th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001 under President Joseph Estrada.
In 1998, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo decided to run for the presidency but instead chose to contest the election for the Vice President and was elected as the first female Vice President of Philippines. Concurrently, she held the cabinet position of Secretary of Social Welfare and Development.
