Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She served from 1986 to 1992, taking power after the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino came from a politically influential family and married Benigno Aquino Jr., who was assassinated in 1983 while in exile, thrusting her into the spotlight as leader of the opposition to the Marcos regime. She won the 1986 presidential election and helped transition the country back to democracy.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She served from 1986 to 1992, taking power after the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino came from a politically influential family and married Benigno Aquino Jr., who was assassinated in 1983 while in exile, thrusting her into the spotlight as leader of the opposition to the Marcos regime. She won the 1986 presidential election and helped transition the country back to democracy.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She served from 1986 to 1992, taking power after the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino came from a politically influential family and married Benigno Aquino Jr., who was assassinated in 1983 while in exile, thrusting her into the spotlight as leader of the opposition to the Marcos regime. She won the 1986 presidential election and helped transition the country back to democracy.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She served from 1986 to 1992, taking power after the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino came from a politically influential family and married Benigno Aquino Jr., who was assassinated in 1983 while in exile, thrusting her into the spotlight as leader of the opposition to the Marcos regime. She won the 1986 presidential election and helped transition the country back to democracy.
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MARIA CORAZON COJUANGCO AQUINO
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was the eleventh and first woman President of the Philippines . She was born on January 25, 1933 in Manila, the sixth of the eight children of Don Jose Cojuangco Sr., lawyer, congressman representing Tarlac, sugar magnate and banker, and Dona Demetria Sumulong, a pharmacist and member of a politically famous clan from Rizal province.
Her formative years were spent at St. Scholastica”s College and the Assumption Convent in Manila. In 1946 the Cojuangco family left for United States and entered Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia, but later enrolled at, and graduated from, the Notre Dame Convent School in New York. She continued her studies at College of Mount St. Vincent also in New York, where she took up French as major and mathematics as minor.
Back in Manila, she enrolled in law at Far Eastern University but her studies were cut short when she married Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr. on on October 11, 1954 at Our lady of Sorrows Church in Pasay City.
They had five children namely, Maria Elena, Aurora Corazon, Benigno III ,Victoria Elisa ,Kristina Bernadette.Her first exposure to the world of Philippine politics shortly after the birth of their first child, in November of 1955, when her husband became the major of Concepcion, Tarlac. But Ninoy lost his seat after two years on account of his being nineteen days younger than the age required for the office of mayor at the time of his selection.
After Ninoy’s assassination, Corazon c. Aquino was thrust into the
limelight. She returned home from Boston and became the unofficial leader of the opposition to the Marcos regime. President Ferdinand Marcos signed Cabinet Bill Number 7 which formally set the presidential poll on February 7, 1986. The next day, Cory Aquino announced that she would run.
The tide began to turn when a faction of the military mutinied
against the Marcos administration on February 22, 1986.Two of the administration’s highest officials-Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos announced the withdrawal of their allegiance upon being implicated in a rebellion charge. Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin enjoined the Filipino people to pray and keep vigil around Camp Aquinaldo and Camp Crame, in EDSA, Quezon City.
On February 25, 1986, Corazon Aquino took her oath ,of office as President together with Salvador Laurel in the presence of Justice Caludio Teehankee at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan.
President Aquino was immediately recognized by the Filipino people
as well as by other foreign leaders.On March 25, 1986, she proclaimed a Freedom Constitution, giving her dictatorial powers.
And after a few days, the Constitution of 1973 and the Batasang Pambansa were abolished.President Aquino, however, had no intentions of remaining a dictator, She issued Proclamation No.9 on April 23 calling for the convening of the Constitutional Commission (CONCOM) on June 2.Seven major coup attempts occurred between July 1986 and December of 1989 against her administration.
These were the coup attempts on November 1986 and august 1987 led by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) and four were attempts of high ranking military still loyal to President Marcos.The last major effort to depose Aquino, in December 1989, and the one that came closest to toppling her was joint effort of the RAM and the Marcos loyalist. But an overwhelming vote for the May legislative elections prove that the most Filipinos supported Aquino’s administration . In 2006 , former President Aquino graced the cover of ‘TIME MAGAZINE’s issue called “60 YEARS OF ASIAN HEROES”.Cory’s child announced on March 24, 2008 in a public statement that President Aquino had been diagnosed with colon cancer.
She was confined at the Makati Medical Center and started
chemotherapy. On December 22, she apologized to former President Estrada for helping oust him in January of 2001.On June 22, 2009 she was confined at Makati Medical Center due to lack of appetite and on June 30, a 9-day healing mass for her was held at Greenbelt Chapel in Makati City.
On August 1, 2009, at six in the morning Senator Benigno Aquino III
announced that Pres. Aquino died at around 3:18 in the morning.
