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Upon assumption into office of newly installed President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., it took almost a week later for Malacanang officials to release to public the first series of executive fiats that were signed on day one of the administration.
President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr has appointed as his legal counsel the same man who, as defence minister more than 36 years ago, helped hatch a coup that forced his father - the Philippines' autocratic president from 1965 to 1986 - to flee the country in shame.
MANILA - Former president Benigno Aquino III was laid to rest on Saturday (June 26) amid an outpouring of grief and tributes to a life marked by exile, the martyrdom of his father, the rise of his mother to political prominence, and personal trials and victories as a public servant.
Mr Aquino died on Thursday of kidney failure and diabetes. He was 61. He was buried next to his parents, the revered democracy icons Benigno Aquino Jr and Corazon Aquino. He died as he lived. He served without fanfare. He abhorred power trappings and power trippings. He slipped away quietly and, as much as possible, disturbing no one, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, a close friend of the Aquino family, said in a homily during the funeral mass for Mr Aquino.