Corazon C.

Aquino
(Tita Cory)- (1986-
1992)
• Freedom Constitution – OIC’s
replaced Marcos appointees
• Speech before the US Congress
• Replaced members of the civil
service suspected of being
Marcos loyalists despite security
of tenure
• PCGG – Presidential Commission
on Good Government
• Yellow Army vs. Marcos
loyalistas=no unity, vindictive
(mapaghiganti)
• Scrapping of the Bataan Nuclear
power Plant=power outrages
(brown outs)
• Constitutional Commission headed by
Cecilia Munoz Palma replaced the
Freedom Constitution (1987
Constitution)
• Appointment of leftist Cabinet Officials
• Freed political prisoners (Bernabe
“Dante” Buscayno –NPA, Jose Ma. Sison-
CPP, Satur Ocampo-NDF)
• CPP- NPA used the ceasefire to redeploy
and regroup (Alex Boncayao Brigade)
• Negotiated with Nur Misuari’s MNLF
(Moro National Liberation Front)
 Dissatisfaction
• Jan 22, 1987-Mendiola Massacre
• 7 coup attempts (RAM, Soldiers of the
Filipino People-SFP by Gen Jose Zumel; YOU-
Young Officers Union by Capt. Danilo Lim)
• Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law =
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
(include tenant farmers as co-owners)
• Military bases was discontinued in 1992 by
the Senate vote in 1991
Fidel V. Ramos (FVR)
– (1992-1998)
• 1st President under the 1987
Constitution
• Won 37% of the votes
• Philippines 2000
• “We can do it, Kaya natin ito basta
tayo’y nagsasama-sama”
• Amnesty for RAM-SFP-YOU
• Anti-Subversion Law
• Social Reform Agenda –low cost
housing, urban renewal programs;
help the poor help themselves
• Built-Operate-Transfer – facilities
such as rail transit systems without
government expenditures
• Subic Bay Metropolitan
Development Authority
• Presidential Anti-Crime Commission
 Liberalization

Foreign products Tiger Economy Many local firms Privatization of

freely entered the were forced to state-run utilities
country close

Dismantling of Value Added Tax Asian Financial PEA-Amari

monopolies Crisis - 1997

Clark-Centennial
Expo Scam
Joseph E. Estrada (Erap)
– (1998-2001)
• Won the biggest majority in Philippine
Presidential Elections
• JEEP- Justice, Economy, Environment, Peace
• Erap Para Sa Mahirap
• Continued liberalization of economy and
privatization of government agencies
• Agrikulturang Maka-Masa – distributed
266,000 hectares of land to landless farmers
• Visiting Forces-Agreement (VFA) Capital
Punishment of death penalty
• All-Out-War against the MILF
• Rizal Day Bombings
• Dos Palmas Kidnapping
 The Controversies and
Downfall
• Midnight Cabinet
• Feud with journalists
• BW Resources (gaming company)- Erap
allegedly manipulated the stock price
• Luis “Chavit” Singson said he gave the president
P400M from jueteng profits and P180M from the
Ilocos Sur Tobacco Excise Tax (subsidy for
farmers)
• Ousted by the House of Representatives on
November 13,2000
• Clarissa Ocampo accused Estrada of signing as
“Jose Velarde”
• Pro-Erap senators voted 11-10 not to open the 2nd
envelope of the Jose Velarde accounts
• EDSA 2
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was sworn as
President
 Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo (PGMA) –
(2001-2010)
• EDSA 3
• EVAT (10%-12% tax on goods) resulted to
protests
• 2003 Oakwood Mutiny- Antonio Trillanes
• Promised not to run anymore in 2002 but
decided the other way around in 2003
• 2004 Elections
• BEAT THE ODDS
• LRT 2
• Privatization of North Luzon Expressway
(NLEX)
• Nautical Highway (Roll on, Roll off ships)
• Participated on US war on Terror (CPP-
NPA as world terrorists)
• Granted Pres. Estrada an executive
clemency
 Scandals
• Hello Garci
• State of Emergency, Calibrated
Preemptive Response (Proclamation
1017)
• Manila Peninsula Siege/Rebellion
• NBN/ZTE scandal
• Fertilizer Fund Scam
• Euro-Generals
• Pasalubong-Pabaon
• Extra-Judicial Killings *Melo
Commission
• Maguindanao Massacre
• Change to parliamentary form of
government
• Ran and won as district representative
in Pampanga
• Midnight appointees (Chief Justice
Renato Corona etc.)
 Benigno S. Aquino III
(P-Noy) – (2010-2016)
• 1st president to win in an automated
Elections
• Daang Matuwid – fight against corruption
• Kaibigan, Kaklase, Kabarilan inc.
• 2010-Manila Hostage Crisis
• SONA revelations
• No definite blueprint of governance
• Almost similar style of leadership to his
mother Pres. Cory
• Impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato
Corona
• PDAF Scandal
 Issues
• RH Law
• ASEAN 2015
• K To 12
• Mamasapano Massacre (SAF 44)
• Yolanda Funds
• Tanim Bala
• LRT and MRT problems
• Dengvaxia
• Scarborough Shoal issue vs. China (Arbitration
Complaint)
 Rodrigo R. Duterte
(Digong) – (2016-Present)
• First Mindanaoan President
• Campaigns against corruption and illegal
drugs
• End of Contractualization
• Improvement of Government Services
• Tensions with CPP-NPA-NDF
• Campaign toward Federalism
• Extra-Judicial Killings
• TRAIN Law
• Build, Build, Build
• Territorial Disputes
• Quo Warranto on CJ Sereno