Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO

14th President of the

Philippines

(second female President)

(January 20, 2001 – June

30, 2010)

Biography Born: April 5, 1947 Political party: LDP (before 1998)

KAMPI (1997-2009)Lakas-CMD I (1998- 2009)

Lakas-CMD II (2009-present)Spouse : Jose Miguel Arroyo

Jose Miguel Arroyo  is a former First

Gentleman of the Philippines. A lawyer by profession, he is the husband of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the current Representative of the Second District of Pampanga.

CHILDREN: Mikey Arroyo, Diosdado Arroyo

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal

The ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He is the father of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was the fourteenth President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.

Arroyo: Vice-Presidency Arroyo began her term as Vice

President on June 30, 1998. Historically, she was the first and only to date female Vice President of the Philippines. She was appointed by Estrada to a concurrent position in the cabinet as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development.

1st term: 2001-2004 President of the Philippines

The last quarter of 2000 up to the first week of January 2001 was a period of political and economic uncertainty for the Philippines. On January 16, 2001, the impeachment trial has also taken a new direction. 

On May 1, 2001, a week after Estrada was arrested on charges of plunder, an estimated 3,000,000 ,protesters sympathetic to Estrada degenerated into violence and attempted to storm the presidential palace  to force Arroyo from office.

2001 Midterm Elections

The 2001 legislative elections and local elections were held in the Phlippines  on May 14, 2001 - four months after Arroyo took office.

Oakwood mutiny

A group of 321 armed soldiers who called themselves "Bagong Katipuneros" led by Army Capt. Gerardo Gambala and Lt. Antonio Trillanes IV of the Philippine Navy took over the Oakwood Premier Ayala Center (now Ascott Makati) serviced apartment tower in Makati City to show the Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration. 

2004 Presidential Election

December 30, 2002 that she will no longer seek the presidency

October 2003, Arroyo changed her mind and announced that she will run for the May 2004 presidential elections and seek a direct mandate from the people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo being sworn in as president by Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. in January 2001.

2nd Term (2004-2010)

Arroyo taking her Oath of Office for a full term as president in Cebu City on June 30, 2004.

HELLO GARCI !

The recordings of Ong became known as the Hello Garci controversy and triggered massive protests against Arroyo. Key members of her cabinet resigned from their respective posts and urged Arroyo to do the same.

Charter Change Arroyo currently spearheads a

controversial plan for an overhaul of the constitution to transform the present unitary and presidential republic with a bicameral legislature into a federal parliamentary government with a unicameral legislature

Contributions and Achievements: second female president of the country first and only female vice-president of

the Philippines so far first president to take oath outside

Luzon former Economics professor at the

Ateneo de Manila University, where current president Benigno Aquino III was one of her students

ex-classmate of former U.S. President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she maintained Dean’s list status

oversaw higher economic growth than the past three presidents before her

peso became the best-performing currency of the year in Asia in 2007

eVAT Law was implemented under her term

NBN-ZTE Controversy (April 2007)

Si Arroyo ay inakusahan ng pag-abuso sa kapangyarihan sa pagtulak ng pagpapatibay ng iminungkahi ng Tsinong ZTE Corp upang itayo ang proyektong National Broadband Network sa Pilipinas sa sobrang taas na presyong $329 milyong dolyar o 13 bilyong piso

2011 Spinal surgery

In early 2011 she was diagnosed with cervical spondylosis or cervical radiculopathy. She was rushed to the St. Luke's Medical Center in Global City Taguig July 25, 2011, minutes after the State of the Nation Address by Benigno Aquino III

2011 Hospital arrest

Arroyo was arrested on November 18, 2011 after a Pasay court issued a warrant of arrest against her, following the filing of a complaint for electoral sabotage by the Commission on Elections.[37] The arrest warrant was served at a St. Luke's Medical Center at Taguig where Arroyo had been confined.

References: http://www.slideshare.net/johnmarvinyalung/gloria-ma

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Gloria_Macapagal-Arroyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Garci_scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Gloria_Macapagal-Arroyo

https://bloomspresidents.wordpress.com/gloria-macapagal-arroyo-2001-present/

THANK YOU and GOD BLESS !