Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. She was the country's first and currently only female Vice President and became President in 2001 after large protests forced Joseph Estrada from office. As President, Arroyo oversaw a period of economic growth but faced significant corruption allegations and political instability, culminating in an impeachment attempt and arrest after leaving office.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
2. 14th President of the
Philippines
(second female
President)
(January 20, 2001 –
June 30, 2010)
3. 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
4. ? 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
5. ? 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.
6. ? 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.
8. ? 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.
9. ? 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.
10. ? The 2001 legislative elections and local
elections were held in the Phlippines on
May 14, 2001 - four months after Arroyo
took office.
11. ? 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.
12. ? 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.
15. ? Arroyo taking her
Oath of Office for a
full term as
president in Cebu
City on June 30,
2004.
17. ? 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.
18. ? 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
19. ? 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
20. ? 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
21. ? 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
22. ? 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
23. ? 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.