Why aquino hates arroyo

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Yet the number of Filipinos living on the equivalent of 97 dirhams a month or less has risen by millions during her time in office. If the opinion polls are right, the senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino, who has had a comfortable lead over his two main rivals - the senator Manuel "Manny" Villar and Joseph "Erap" Estrada, a former president - since campaigning began in February, is headed for a landslide victory.

Whether or not he will usher in the honest and transparent government that many Filipinos desire remains to be seen. For the incumbent, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, it will end nine years of rule in which the US-educated economist showed much promise, but is leaving office as the most hated and corrupt president since the dark days of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer, in an editorial yesterday, said: "The national campaign - correctly, to our mind - has focused both on the election being a referendum on the present administration's nine years of brinkmanship and impunity and on the alternatives being proposed to compensate for a decade of lost national opportunities for growth, stability and progress.

A poll in April by the Social Weather Stations, a Manila-based public opinion service, showed Mrs Arroyo's net satisfaction rating among Filipinos at minus 53, the lowest since democratic elections began in after the ousting of Marcos.

The figure meant nearly seven out of 10 Filipinos did not approve of her performance. Her former economics adviser, Joey Salceda, said in an interview in March that under Mrs Arroyo "the rich have got richer and the poorer". Mrs Arroyo, however, boasts that she has been able to deliver 34 quarters of uninterrupted economic expansion during her presidency. But the beneficiaries have been the elites, big business and the politicians, according to the economics professor Ben Diokno of the University of the Philippines.

Nothing has filtered down to the poor, who make up more than 50 per cent of the country's 92 million people. Data from the National Statistical Coordination Board show that the number of Filipinos living on 1, pesos Dh97 a month has risen to nearly 30 million from A devout Roman Catholic, Mrs Arroyo has done nothing to bring the birth rate down, instead bowing to the Church, which campaigns against the use of contraception.

Meanwhile, Ms. President Rodrigo R. The opposition could bank on Mr. Manhit said. Aquino represented the promise of the post-EDSA democracy, it also betrayed its limits. Aquino initiated key government reforms during his presidency, but they were not enough, said Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles, a political science lecturer at De La Salle. Despite his crusade against corruption, Mr.

Aquino failed to dismantle patronage politics that weakens the delivery of public service, he said in a Facebook Messenger chat. Arguelles said. Political analyst Antonio Gabriel M. Aquino failed to institutionalize key political reforms because his political party, like other political groups at that time, was dominated by traditional politicians.

Aquino tried to fulfill the promises of the street uprising led by his mother by enforcing transparency and accountability in government, but he was overwhelmed by the oligarchy, bureaucratic inefficiency, and disasters beyond the control of humans, Mr. Ana Patricia C.

Paje, 29, was not a fan of Mr. Neither did she vote for Mr. She thinks that while Mr. Aquino had his faults, the country under his administration was better. Sign in.