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This article covers the history of the current Philippine republican state following the 1986 People Power Revolution, known as the Fifth Philippine Republic.. The return of democracy and government reforms beginning in 1986 were hampered by national debt, government corruption, coup attempts, disasters, a persistent communist insurgency, [1] and a military conflict with Moro separatists. [2]
Fifth Philippine Republic (February 2, 1987 – present) The current government in the Philippines is termed Republic of the Philippines. Earlier organizational bodies which led to the First Republic, headed by many of the same people, also styled themselves as "Philippine Republic" and/or "Republic of the Philippines":
This evolved in the largely peaceful 1986 EDSA Revolution, which ended with Marcos going into exile in Hawaii and Corazon Aquino becoming the 11th president of the Philippines on February 25, 1986. Under Aquino, the Philippines would adopt a new constitution, ending the Fourth Republic and ushering in the beginning of the Fifth Republic.
Fall of Marcos regime (1965–86); start of Fifth Republic The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986 ) was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines that began in 1983 and culminated in 1986.
She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic. Aquino was married to Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., who was one of the most prominent critics of President Marcos.
On June 2, 1899, undeclared general hostilities between U.S. and Philippine forces having been ongoing since February 4, the Malolos Republic promulgated a Declaration of War against the United States, [38] thereby officially beginning the Philippine–American War.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
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