Can the gains be sustained? Assessing the first five years of the Aquino administration

• Main Author: Holmes, Ronald D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Philippines > Politics and government > 1986- Benigno Simeon C. Aquino, 1960-; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/607
• Institution: De La Salle University

Benigno S. “Noynoy” Aquino III entered the 2010 presidential race relatively late. In the wake of his mother’s death in August 2009, then-Senator Aquino was pressed by influential personalities and members of his own party to seek the country’s highest post. He finally declared his candidacy in Sept...