Political leader and president from 1986 to 1992 of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino was to succeed her murdered husband, Benigno Aquino, a leader from the opposition to President Ferdinand Marcos.
Corazon or Cory Aquino, the seventh and first woman president of the Republic of the Philippines, was born in Tarlac on Januray 25, 1933 to Don Jose Cojuanco and Doņa Demetra Sumulong. She graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in New York in 1954 but then abandoned further studies in 1955 to marry Ninoy Aquino, who was then a promising you politician.
In 1983, she succeeded her murdered husband, Benigno Aquino, as a leader of the opposition to President Ferdinand Marcos. Thus, she became the unified opposition's candidate for the presidency of Marcos.
On Febuary 25, 1986, Cor and Marcos were inaugurated as president by their respective supporters but that same day, Marcs fled the country.
In March 1986, she proclaimed a provinsional constitution and soon thereafetr appointed a commission to write a new constitution
She faced an ongoing outcry over economic injustice, a problem that was only exacerbated by continuing warfare between the communist insurgency and a military whose loyalties to Aquino were uncertain.
The support of the people which was called People's Power pushed her to candidate against Marcos.
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