The death of former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino is a personal loss to me.

Whatever I have learned about good governance, I have learned by watching her closely during her days in Malacanang and during her post-presidency days as Citizen Cory.

During the last year of her presidency, people close to her argued that since she came into office as a revolutionary president and not elected under the 1987 Constitution, she was eligible to run in the 1992 presidential election. She would have none of that. She firmly believed that a peaceful transfer of power to the next president was critical to More >