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Benigno Aquino III

PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINES
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Alternative Titles: Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, Noynoy Aquino
Benigno Aquino III, in full Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III,

also called Noynoy, (born February 8, 1960, Manila, Philippines),
Filipino politician who served as president of the Philippines (2010–16)
and was the scion of a famed political family.
He was the son of Corazon Aquino, who served as president of the

Philippines (1986–92), and political leader Benigno Simeon Aquino, Jr.
—themselves the children of politically connected families. The elder
Benigno, an opposition gure to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos who was
imprisoned when the younger Benigno was a child, was released and
allowed to go to the United States in 1980. The following year the
younger Benigno, after graduating from Ateneo de Manila University
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afterward, and there the young Aquino worked for companies

including Philippine Business for Social Progress and Nike
Philippines.
He became vice president of his family’s Best Security Agency

Corporation in 1986, the same year that his mother was named
president of the Philippines after her opposition party successfully
charged incumbent President Marcos with voting fraud. Aquino left
the company in 1993 to work for another family-owned business, a
sugar re nery. Finally, in 1998, he made the move to politics as a
member of the Liberal Party, serving the constitutional maximum of
three consecutive terms as a representative of the 2nd district of
Tarlac province. During this time he also served as deputy speaker of
the House of Representatives (2004–06), but he resigned from the
post in advance of joining other Liberal Party leaders in making a call
for the resignation of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001–10), who
was accused of corrupt dealings including the rigging of the 2004
presidential election. From 2006 Aquino served as vice-chairman of
the Liberal Party, and in 2007, at the end of his nal term in the
House of Representatives, he made a successful bid for a Senate seat.
In September 2009 Aquino announced his candidacy in the 2010

presidential race. His mother, to many a symbol of democratic rule in
the Philippines, had died the previous month, an event that
heightened Aquino’s pro le and served as a catalyst for his seeking
higher of ce. Though his opponents for the presidency included
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In the elections held on May 10, Aquino won the presidency by a wide
margin.
Aquino’s chief domestic accomplishment was the conclusion of a

peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in
October 2012. The deal promised a signi cant amount of autonomy
to a Muslim-majority region of southern Mindinao and seemingly
concluded four decades of deadly con ict. Economic growth in the
Philippines was strong during Aquino’s administration, but
unemployment remained high, and opposition politicians argued
that the bene ts chie y accrued to the country’s elite. Aquino also
faced criticism over his government’s slow response to Super
Typhoon Haiyan, which killed some 8,000 people and displaced more
than 800,000 when it hit the Philippines in November 2013. The most
signi cant foreign policy issue of Aquino’s term in of ce was China’s
increasingly assertive posture in the South China Sea. The Philippines
sought a judgment from the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The
Hague to clarify the ownership of a reef that was claimed by China
despite the fact that it lay within Philippine territorial waters.
Although the court later ruled that China had no claim to the reef
and that China’s actions had constituted a violation of the
Philippines’ sovereignty, China dismissed the decision. Limited to a
single six-year term, Aquino supported Manuel (“Mar”) Roxas to
succeed him in 2016. Roxas, the grandson of Pres. Manuel Roxas,
represented the mainstream political establishment at a time when
voters were clearly frustrated with the status quo, and he nished a
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Benigno Aquino III

WRITTEN BY: Melissa Albert

Alternative Titles: Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, Noynoy Aquino

Benigno Aquino III, in full Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III,

He was the son of Corazon Aquino, who served as president of the

afterward, and there the young Aquino worked for companies

He became vice president of his family’s Best Security Agency

In September 2009 Aquino announced his candidacy in the 2010

Aquino’s chief domestic accomplishment was the conclusion of a

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