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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.
Estrada was soon forced out from office by the Second EDSA Revolution in 2001, and Arroyo was sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. on January 20 that year. In 2003, the Oakwood mutiny occurred after signs of a martial law declaration were seen under her rule.
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.
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Jun 11, 2010 · Filipinos are worse off today than when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power nine years ago. Unemployment is at record sustained highs, household real income declined, poverty increased, inequality worsened, and Filipinos were forced abroad in unprecedented numbers.
At the end of his first term as president in 2004, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo decided to run for the presidency and was elected again on the back of a campaign that banked on rooting out corruption and developing the economy.
For the incumbent, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, it will end nine years of rule in which the US-educated economist showed much promise, but is leaving office as the most hated and corrupt president since the dark days of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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.”
