The Aquino Administration: Record and Legacy

by Corazón Cojuangco Aquino

For the first time in Philippine history an outgoing administration was able to report, discuss and publish a comprehensive and coherent self-assessment of the challenges and problems it faced since it assumed power and responsibility, its performance and achievements through its leadership and stewardship of the government, and its legacy to the nation and succeeding administrations. By its self assessment, the Aquino Administration fulfilled in a unique and distinct way its public accountability in a developing constitutional democracy.

399 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

From political exile, Benigno Simeon Aquino returned to his assassination in 1983; afterward, Philippine leader Corazón Cojuangco Aquino, his widow, ran for president in 1986 against Ferdinand Marcos, who, following the apparently fraudulent election, fled the country, and she served to 1992.

Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino, the icon of democracy, severed eleventh from 1986 to 1992 as the first female in Asia.

A senator and a figure in the opposition against the autocratic rule married this self-proclaimed "plain housewife." Her spouse lived in the United States until he arrived and died on 21 August 1983, With no prior experience, Aquino, a focal point, unified force of the opposition. People drafted her in the snap of 1986. People proclaimed the winner despite widespread reports, but the peaceful people power revolution of 1986 afterward installed Aquino.

Aquino saw the restoration of democratic institutions through the enactment of a new constitution, which limited the powers, restored the bicameral congress, and renewed emphasis on civil liberties. Disaffected members of the military several times attempted coups that likewise hampered her administration and derailed full stability and economic development. After suffering from colon cancer, she due to cardio-respiratory arrest died.